How to make your own medicine in the bush

Yesterday someone in camp wasn’t feeling well, so we decided to make some dawa (medicine) for them. We thought we would tell you how we made it. Step 1: Find someone who can give you the ingredients for the medicine from the bush. We have a friend called Mambo who sometimes brings this to us.…

Rain at last!

Today we are very pleased to have a lot of rain. Last night we had 6mm and today the rain is continuing. This is great news for the wildlife and the livestock who have been longing for more rain.   The ground was so dry, and animals were dying from lack of water, so we…

Leopard speared?

Yesterday we received a call saying that a leopard had been killed in Kimana, a neighbouring ranch to ours. We rushed to go and see what had happened. When we arrived we found that it was in fact a cheetah (the two are often confused). It had been speared and its paws removed. Our first…

Have you ever heard a cheetah before?

Yesterday we were out looking for lions with the film crew that are staying with us at the moment, and we heard a strange noise. At first we thought it was a bird, but we followed the sound and as we got closer we discovered it was a cheetah, walking around on the plains and…

Speared elephant dies

I have some sad news to report. The elephant that was speared died last night. We went to see her this morning, and discovered she was a lactating female. We do not know if she had already given birth, or was pregnant, but either one would explain her unusual behaviour, which caused her to be…

Swiss film crew visit Lion Guardians

For the next two weeks I will be busy with a Swiss television crew who are out here in Kenya to make a documentary about Living with Lions (our umbrella organization) and the Lion Guardians program. They are with us at the moment to find out what we do, and try to see some interesting…

Elephant speared

Yesterday we heard the news that an elephant had been speared four times near the edge of our ranch. We also heard that the scouts that had found the elephant had lost it in the bush, and the pressure was on to find it again. A plane was sent to search for the injured elephant…

Where are you?

Have you had a look at the map on the right hand side at the bottom of the blog? If you click on the map you can see how many people are reading this blog from all over the world. It is amazing to see that people from so many different places are reading about…

Carnivores massacre livestock

It is a sad day for Lion Guardian Solonka’s community. Over 10 shoats (sheep and goats) were killed in his area of work with another 10 missing. Solonka was called in to help find the animals, and discovered carcasses all over the area. He found tracks from lions, hyenas and cheetahs around them.   In…