Category Archives: Survivor Series

Fighting Elephants With Bees: New Beehive Fences Keeping The Jumbos Away From The Farms

For residents of Ngariama location in Kirinyaga East district living close to elephant territory, the constant loss of livelihoods and even lives by the marauding jumbos, is all too common. This, it seems, is about to change if a new … Continue reading

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Nature’s Perfect Flying Creature Can Be Found Right Here in Kenya

Of the more than 1,000 bird species recorded in Kenya, I find the Rüppell’s Vulture (Gyps rueppellii), to be among the most fascinating. With a current estimated population of about 30,000, the Rüppell’s Vulture (also known as Rüppell’s Griffon), like … Continue reading

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KWS To Start Ambitious Plan to Translocate 200 Jumbos

It is exactly 10 years since the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) engaged in a large-scale elephant translocation exercise (Read the full story of the 2001 translocation on our Enchanted Moments section of the website). On that July 2001, KWS translocated … Continue reading

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How Do You Get A Lion To Be This Angry?

Recently as I was going through our ever-growing photo gallery I came across a picture of a really angry lion submitted by one of our keen readers taken during a recent safari to the Maasai Mara and I got to … Continue reading

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SIX Other Ways Your Ordinary Toothpaste Can Be More Than A Oral Hygiene Affair

For most of us, the mention of the word toothpaste only conjures up memories of the state of our oral hygiene but that is not all that toothpaste can do. A quick Google check reveals the many other wonders of … Continue reading

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Homicide In The Wild: Meet The Rat That Smears Itself With Poison To Keep Off Predators

Humans are known to be capable of going to great extremes to guarantee their survival if threatened. Time has given us the luxury of experience to appreciate this as a fact of life – one only needs to watch Zone … Continue reading

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How To Choose A Good Camping Tent For Your Next Family Safari

Here we highlight a few tips you need to consider when shopping around for a camping tent for a family hiking: Size The size of a tent is determined by how many people it can accommodate – hence tents are … Continue reading

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