Today we have another guest blogger: Kathleen Fitzgerald, AWF’s Land Conservation Director based in our Nairobi headquarters. transporter 3 HD download The week has been a really bad one for residents and wildlife of Amboseli. A construction company began detonating explosives and erecting fences in a sensitive wildlife area near Amboseli National Park. This area [...]

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On Saturday the 25th, two men were arrested for carrying 703 kg (1,550 lb) of elephant ivory in southern Kenya. The seizure, the biggest in recent times in Kenya, was made possible thanks to the efforts by AWF-supported game scouts. The two men were traveling by vehicle in Tanzania when they were ambushed by wildlife [...]

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It’s too bad elephants aren’t smaller. If they were, perhaps they wouldn’t travel such great distances, and we humans wouldn’t have to drive for so long to map their movements. I spent the entire day bumping through West Kili’s inescapable dust, GPS mapping a snaking network of roads. It’s amazing how tiring all this sitting [...]

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