Category Archives: Endangered Species

PROJECT SURVIVAL TEAM VISITS SOYSAMBU CONSERVANCY.

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Shared By:Duncan And Beatrice

The Soysambu Conservancy is glad to be associated with the Project Survival and particularly  happy with the current  visit of the project’s staff  led by Mr Dale Anderson.The project is dedicated to preservation of  wild cats and specializes in education, captive and range country conservation. Conservation of cats in their native habitat is the main work of this project. Collaboration between the Soysambu Conservancy and Project Survival will make Soysambu a better place for the preservation of cats and awareness creation about conservation of  the cats habitats. We are looking for a brighter future for the projects that will be initiated by Project Survival in the Soysambu Conservancy.

photoMr. Dale at the Soysambu Research Centre.

AFRICA VENTURE RETURNS TO SOYSAMBU

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By  Duncan  and Beatrice

The Africa  Venture has been working closely with Soysambu conservancy in environmental conservation activities  for the last three years.This  collaboration has seen a large  number of volunteers get exposure to what Africa is experiencing in terms of the effort  to  conserve .Most of  the volunteers have come from England,America,Belgium and many other nations. The volunteers comprises mainly of those who are on gap year getting involved  on building  of Game Hides, Bird Hides, Giraffe Monitoring, Road Signage and other conservation activities. We have marked the start of this year by registering a group of eight volunteers camping and helping with conservation work. This group comprises of the girls and boys namely, Mumford Rebbeca,Lairo Ailsa,Platts Dunn Theo, Taylor Florence,Bradbeer Timothy Oldham Rosie, Bantis Welsh Rosie and Marshman Megan.

FIRE THREATENS BIODIVERSITY IN SOYSAMBU CONSERVANCY

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BY:Duncan Oduor and Beatrice Limo.

Fire is a very important tool of managing rangelands in Kenya  and especially when used  properly and at the right time. The fire also has a devastating effects when it’s not controlled or when it is naturally or accidentally caused in the Parks, Conservancies and other rangelands. It is not only unfortunate when the fires are intentionally caused but its impacts can be so great especially to sensitive and  fragile ecosystems and organisms in their natural habitats. Last year most parts of Kenya received adequate rains that led to good harvest of a variety of crops including the staple maize/corns. The rains also helped in the improvement of biomass of both plants and animals.

The Soysambu Conservancy was not left behind in terms of rains ,the rains were so adequate leading to very green   ranges. The warm season has set in for the last few weeks, the vegetation has now wilted, dried and turned brownish. Following the dry weather we are experiencing, the huge challenge and threat remains to be wild fires as the grass is currently tall and strong winds blowing from time to time may make it conducive and a hard task to put off the fires. Unfortunately we have experienced a number of wildfires for the past few weeks mainly along the Nakuru-Nairobi Highway (A104) and including the latest fire that nearly gutted the Sunbird and the coming up Serena Lodge. Due to dedicated effort of teams from the Soysambu Conservancy, the Fire Brigade from Nakuru County Council, The friendly Forces-Police and the Military we have managed to fight all the fires and controlled them to minimal areas as possible. The causes of these fires are unknown and some are believed to have started from the surrounding homes straying into this fragile conservation area. Our way forward is now just to improve the routine patrols, community policing, and awareness creation and prepare for any reported cases and prompt action to avoid huge damage.

The latest place was the Triagle Area  and Congreve.The  Triangle is still area along the highway(A 104) while Congreve boarders lake Nkuru National Park.The fires were put off by the combined efforts of the staff.

ROTHSCHILD GIRAFFES JOURNEY ENDS IN RUKO CONSERVANCY

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The journey for the 8 Rothschild giraffes who were being held in a  holding pen for two weeks  finally came to the end yesterday. They were loaded in a lorry  at around mid night  for around five hours  of travel to Roberts’ camp for loading into a boat. Four giraffes were again loaded into a floating vessel propelled by two fibre glass boats on two sides for about an hour to the Ruko island where they will be held in a huge pen for monitoring just before release into their final home. The current holding pen is the true picture of where they will stay as their natural habitat and it is plenty with acacia trees .The giraffes will also be supplied with lucern and water as they get used to this new environment.photophoto-1

HABITAT RESTRICTED SPECIES.

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BY:BEATY LIMO and DUNCAN ODUOR

Soysambu Conservancy has a species of animals that are only found in specific areas of the entire habitat of 48,000 acres.The most common known species are the Black and White Colobus monkey(Colobus guereza).The animals of this species are only found at the Riverine Acacia Forest(Acacia xanthopholea) also called Yellow barked Acacia.To keep and improve the numbers of such a species the conservancy has ensured a proper management of it’s habitat hence no human activity is allowed in such an area.Welcome to our conservancy  and have a view of such amazing , beautifully  coloured,Black and white colobus monkey. vital animal species.