Here are some of the highlights from Porini Camps between April and September 2020 when many guests were unable to join us in Kenya due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Above: leopard tracks in Selenkay Conservancy
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Porini Camp Manager Jimmy Lemara has been observing Nebahati and her four sons today. They are on the eastern edge of Ol Kinyei Conservancy.
And in Selenkay Conservancy, our guide Daniel has seen Ummoja. This is one of few (maybe three) big tuskers in the conservancy. He is roughly 35 years old and came to Selenkay in early 2008. He is a very sociable animal and he is good friends with two younger elephants that he is often seen with.
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With tourism suspended at present due to the Coronavirus pandemic, our safari vehicles are no longer driving around the Ol Kinyei conservancy taking visitors to view the wildlife. In their absence it is vital that our conservancy Warden and rangers continue to carry out patrols to ensure the wildlife is protected. Our Porini Mara Camp manager Jimmy Lemara has been out in the conservancy daily and so has our Warden Simon Nkoitoi with his team of rangers.
Last week while patrolling the eastern side of the conservancy they found “Green Eyes”, one of the 3 dominant pride males known as the Rekero Boys, with a wire snare round his neck. This must have happened during the night when he strayed out beyond the conservancy boundary. They reported this to KWS so that their wildlife vet could come to assist and also notified senior researcher Niels Mogenson from the Mara Predator Conservation Programme who monitors the lions in the conservancies. They followed Green Eyes who went into thick bush on a rocky hill where the vehicles could not go.
They spent the next 2 days searching for the lion with no luck but in the early morning of the third day they found he had joined his brothers further inside Ol Kinyei Conservancy so they called the KWS team. The KWS vet Dr Limo quickly attended and was able to dart the lion to tranquillise him and remove the snare with no harm to Green Eyes who woke up none the worse for wear and later went off with his brothers as if nothing had happened!
We must continue funding the Warden and Rangers as well as the Porini Camps staff during the coming weeks so please support our ADOPT-AN-ACRE plan – click here for details.
The snare is visible on the neck of Green Eyes (above, left)
Green Eyes (far left) with his brothers, “The Rekero Boys”
13 April 2020
Spotted thick-knee
Striped kingfisher
Black-faced sand grouse
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Grey-headed kingfisher
5 April 2020
Martial eagle
Hamerkop
Long-crested eagle
Dark chanting goshawk
4 April 2020
A shot of the rare Aardwolf marking its territory, in Ol Kinyei Conservancy. They are rarely seen in daylight.
Mwanza flat-headed agama lizard
Black-Chested Snake Eagle
Secretary Bird
3 April 2020
“Kini” (means small in Maa), a four year old leopard
Lions from the Sampu-Enkare breakaway pride
A warthog (in hiding)
2 April 2020
Lilac-breasted Roller
Tawny Eagle
1 April 2020
Lappet-faced vultures
Cape Buffalo with yellow-billed ox-peckers
