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How your donations are saving lions in Tanzania

Aug 21, 2018 · by Wildlife Margrit · In: Human Wildlife Conflict, lion, Nikela Blog, Protect lions with lights, wild animals, wildlife conservation Tagged: farmers, human-wildlife conflict, Philipo Ormorijei, predator conflict, save lions with lights, Tanzania

From the field, how your charitable donations are saving lions from being killed by angry farmers. Lights on bomas really do keep them away and alive. Recently with your help we sent $1,000 to help buy lights. Enough lights to outfit two bomas. This report just in from Philipo from the bush THE REPORT ABOUT PIYAYA On 8/8/2018 I was at Piyaya Village in Loliondo District. I have tried to communicate with Village chairmen and good luck I met with them. We have seen that Piyaya is very remote places. People don’t know anything about lights, they’re also afraid of…

Raiding Elephants, Foes Now Friends and More Wildlife News from the Thuma Forest

Jul 3, 2018 · by Nikela Volunteer/Guest blogger · In: elephant, Human Wildlife Conflict, Lynn, Nikela Blog, wild animals Tagged: elephants, human wildlife conflicts, Lynn Clifford, Sheri Gann, WAG

For the past two years we’ve been involved with Lynn and her work in the Thuma Forest in Malawi. But we’ve never had so much good news to share before. Many thanks to Nikela Volunteer Sheri Gann for this informative summary: Raiding Bulls and a Mistaken Identity For many years now Chaka, our tuskless bull, has been blamed for breaking the fence line, raiding crops, and killing people. In February we had a spate of fence breaking and rangers tracked the elephant. We then hired a helicopter from African Parks and with the help of Dr. Amanda Said were able…

Wildlife Guardian Wages – Help Khumbulane at Free to be Wild

Mar 20, 2018 · by Russ · In: conservation, Nikela Blog, wild animals, wildlife conservation Tagged: donate, Free to be Wild, wildlife guardian

Oh how we love you Khumblane. From the beginning he’s been a natural but Baye needs help to pay his wildlife guardian wages. Here’s more about him so you can feel as honored as we are to pay his wildlife guardian wages. A 6 month commitment so far but we would like to make it permanent. When you’re around Khumbu you smile a lot and enjoy the animals. But trust me, his real magic is helping Baye build and work this important Rescue Rehab Release Center in Zimbabwe. For the first few years he was her only help and is…

Forever a predator: A captive lion kills woman in South Africa

Mar 5, 2018 · by Wildlife Margrit · In: canned hunting, lioness, Nikela Blog, wild animals Tagged: captive lions, Kevin Richardson

Why is it that we humans never understand that even a captive lion is forever a predator… and can and will kill? Oh how horrible! Was my response as I read about the killing. One of Kevin Richardson’s lionesses attacked a woman. Kevin, a huge advocate for lions, campaigns against the captive breeding of lions. Some find this controversial. Kevin has a sanctuary for lions that can’t be released. However, Kevin doesn’t breed lions. He provides them with a forever home. As part of the lions’ enrichment he takes them for ‘lion walks’ on the Dinokeng reserve where the sanctuary…

Another successful Global March to save Elephant and Pangolin in Uganda

Nov 15, 2017 · by Wildlife Margrit · In: Illegal trade, Moses, Nikela Blog, wild animals, wildlife conservation Tagged: Global March, Moses Arineitwe, pangolin, save elephants, stop poaching, Uganda

Moses a former wildlife ranger is on a mission to stop animal poaching. Every year he organizes a Global March in his area in Uganda. Moses has this gift of persuasion A few years back Moses felt compelled to do more to save the wildlife in his area from poachers. He lives in a village north of the Bwindi Impenetrable National Forest in Uganda. He decided to get involved in the annual Global March to save elephants. After this first march animal poachers actually came up to Moses. They told him they wanted to stop killing wildlife. However, they needed…

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How your donations are saving lions in Tanzania

Raiding Elephants, Foes Now Friends and More Wildlife News from the Thuma Forest

Wildlife Guardian Wages – Help Khumbulane at Free to be Wild

Forever a predator: A captive lion kills woman in South Africa

Another successful Global March to save Elephant and Pangolin in Uganda

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