Safari Journal - January 2022
Nashulai is the first ever community-owned and directed wildlife conservancy. It is a unique achievement that promises to inspire a positive change in the entire East Africa region.
John Mbaria — Kenyan Author & Conservation Journalist
THIS SERIES WILL BE POSTED periodically. WE WILL PRESENt here, Some of THE MOST CURRENT EFFORTS AND TECHNOLOGY BEING USED TO protect ENDANGERed ANIMAL species.
“Our community rose up to save this place and become its stewards for the generations to come. Do you think we don’t know how to do that? This is the land where the bones of our ancestors are buried.”
Nelson Ole Reiyia — Co-Founder of Nashulai
More than a million grazing animals join in one of the great wildlife spectacles on earth every summer when, following their need for fresh grass, they trek up to Maasai Mara from Serengeti National Park in Tanzania.
Nashulai Maasai Conservancy is the United Nations Development Programme - Equator Prize Winner 2020
At Nashulai we are not only regenerating our land but our culture as well. We say: “It is impossible to keep the future of the Maasai alive without keeping our past alive. If we cut the roots we will wither away.”
SEE THE MAASAI MARA THROUGH MAASAI EYES
When you visit Nashulai you are directly supporting East Africa’s invaluable biodiversity and the indigenous Maasai people. Profits from Nashulai Maasai Safaris, Day Visitors, and Oldarpoi camp guests directly support the ecological regeneration and economic development of our community.
Chimpanzees Appear to Use Insects to Treat Their Wounds
In a first, chimps in Gabon were seen applying insects to sores on themselves—and others, a possible show of empathy
By - Corryn Wetzel, Daily Correspondent
Loango National Park is located on the Atlantic coast of south-west Gabon, approximately 300 km from the Gabonese capital of Libreville. The park was established in 2002 and covers an area of 1,550 km².
We have been conducting research on a chimpanzee population in the Central African rainforest of Gabon since 2005. Over the years, here's what we've been working on.
The Complex Social Nature of Chimpanzees
“This in some cases could be due to “lessons” between mother and offspring, teaching the ways of the community. However chimpanzees learn all throughout their adolescence from all group members. We want to provide you with a “hands-on” example. An interesting study of one community of chimpanzees in the Kibale forest in Uganda showed that chimpanzees there use sticks to extract honey from a log whilst individuals in the Budongo forest of Uganda only 200km away use chewed up leaves as “sponge-like” tools to extract the sweet honey from logs.”
Africa’s west-central coast, a river-laced patchwork of tidal mangrove swamps, savannah, deep forest, and mountains, part of the Guineo-Congolian region which is the most biologically diverse on the continent.
Loango National Park is located on the Atlantic coast of south-west Gabon, approximately 300 km from the Gabonese capital of Libreville. The park was established in 2002 and covers an area of 1,550 km².
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Botswana Predator Conservation Trust
For over two decades, the Botswana Predator Conservation Trust has been working to study and preserve wildlife in Africa.
Tusk's approach to conservation recognizes that the long term future for wildlife and Africa's other natural resources is dependent on sustainable rural development. more... Tusk believes that if conservation is to succeed and environmental degradation to be reversed then education needs to be promoted at an early age.
Cheetah Conservation Botswana (CCB) aims to preserve the nation’s cheetah population through scientific research, community outreach and conservation education, working with rural communities to promote coexistence with Botswana’s rich diversity of carnivore species.