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January 21, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Do you want to see black rhino?” asks Julius Kipng’etich, the director of the Kenya Wildlife Service. Past another few bushes, large black backsides come into view as some of the world’s rarest animals graze alongside zebras and buffalo.

Though small (only 44 square miles), and directly next door to the city, Nairobi National Park has the distinction, Kipng’etich is proud to point out, of being home to the largest rhino population in any African park.

Four years ago, when the 43 yearold took over the job, Kenya’s rhino population appeared to be in terminal decline, preyed upon by poachers supplying north Yemen with dagger sheaths and the Chinese with aphrodisiacs. Tourists, half of them from Britain, were still pouring into the country to see the “Big Five” animals – lions, leopards, elephants, buffalo and rhinos – but wildlife was declining rapidly.

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NEXT FoNNaP MEMBERS’ GATHERING

January 21, 2010 · Leave a Comment

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL!

NEXT MEMBERS’ GATHERING

7TH FEBRUARY 2010

venue: KWS Guest House

We welcome new members!!


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Next Members Gathering

May 29, 2009 · 6 Comments

June 7, 2009, 11 am

Venue: KWS Guest House!

Guest Speaker: Dr. Joseph Ogutu

Subject: Wildlife Species Decline

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Newsletter – May 2009

May 29, 2009 · 2 Comments

KWS Strategic Plan 2008-2012

On Wed., 6 May, 2009, at KWS Headquarters, KWS launched its Strategic Plan for 2008-2012, having achieved the majority of its targets from its previous Strategic Plan 2005-2010.  The Strategic Plan 2008-2012 is launched ahead of schedule to be in sync with Vision 2030.

Keep reading →

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March – April 2009 Newsletter

April 29, 2009 · Leave a Comment

The prolonged dry season turned into a drought therefore increasing competition between livestock and wildlife for water and pasture both, in and outside the park. A striking influx of livestock into the park was witnessed until Easter when the Park Management finally took action to drive them out. It is noteable that livestock was not just from the communities adjacent to Nairobi National Park but migrating herds from all over Kajiado District.
Keep reading →

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A great website

December 2, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Will Knocker has created a very nice website at http://nairobinationalpark.wildlifedirect.org/. It is more up-to-date than this one – which I have not been able to spare the time to update for a long time now. Have a look at Will’s site. It’s great and has lots of pics!

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Newsletter – February 2008

February 20, 2008 · Leave a Comment

MEMBERS GATHERING, SUNDAY, 03/02/08, KWS GUEST HOUSE , MEMBERS PRESENT: 20

The International Livestock Resarch Institute(ILRI) was invited to give a presentation on its ‘Reto-0-Reto Project’, affecting pastoral livelihoods and wildlife conservation, keeping land open for people, livestock and wildlife. In the Maa language, ‘Reto-o-Reto’ means ‘I help you, you help me.’ A collaborative research programme of over 50 institutions, facilitated by ILRI, Reto-o-Reto is working in five pastoral regions in Kenya and Tanzania to support communities to develop more prosperous and sustainable futures. Reto-o-Reto community facilitators enable the Maasai communities in Kitengela, Amboseli and Mara in Kenya, and Tarangire-Simanjiro in Tanzania, to make better decisions on the use of their land and other resources to safeguard their future. Keep reading →

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Newsletter – January 2008

February 20, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Dear Members,

The recent disturbances affected everyone of us but fortunately not too much our work. Consolation for December was paid in time, 127,500/- Sh, much less than in November when leopards and cheetahs were the main predators. But in January we got already reports of several lion kills, the big lions seem to prey in the third triangle. Identification still outstanding. Keep reading →

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Next members gathering

February 20, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Sunday 2nd March ,2008, 11 A.M.
Venue KWS Guest House inside the park.
The Guest Speaker will be Mr. Wilson Korir – KWS Assistant Director, Southern Area.
You are all Welcome.

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KWS to set up task force in bid to conserve country’s lions

February 20, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Story by ODHIAMBO ORLALE
Daily Nation: 2/19/2008

The Kenya Wildlife Service is to set up a task force to study how to protect, conserve and promote the over 2,000 lions in the country. Keep reading →

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