“Your Elephants”

“Your Elephants”

Land use change in the Transmara, from “Wildlife and People: Conflict and Conservation in Masai Mara, Kenya” by Noah Sitati Here’s a quickie to follow up on my post about elephant conflicts in Masai land.  Quite a few people have written me back...
Visit to Ingelai Village

Visit to Ingelai Village

This is about a trip to a Samburu village that has decided to settle and abandon the nomadic lifestyle. Ingelai village is home to two ambassadors from the Grevy’s Zebra Trust. Visiting this village was a good thing for me. As I wrote earlier, I found it...
Ghost Forests

Ghost Forests

October , 2007, 4:36 am The sun won’t rise for another hour or more, and it is pitch black beneath the trees. My headlamp illuminates only a small circle of steeply rising trail. The world is reduced, constricted by my limited senses. I hear mostly the crunch of my...