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Poisoning Wildlife in Kenya a Chance to Show the World How to Prevent It 50 ABERDARES - A BLUEPRINT FOR FRONTLINES TROPICAL FOREST MANAGEMENT 5 Letter from the Editor Kari Mutu reports on the conservation of Kenya's 6 Letters to the Editor Aberdares mountains to the benefit of all who live 8 Chairman’s Letter on it - man and beast - and suggests this might be a 10 Director’s Letter template for other tropical forests. 12 Opinion 14 News Roundup 56 A DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH - HIROLA CONSERVATION IN IJARA, KENYA It has the unenviable title of being the most endangered antelope in Africa. What can be done? CONSERVATION Abdullah Ali and Jacob Goheen report on the 16 POISONING Wildlife IN KENYA beautiful Hirola. Paula Kahumbu sees the Kenyan government take action against the poisoning of wildlife in 57 IN AN era OF deforestation, A a way that might blaze a trail for other African FOREST FRAGMENT FOUND governments beset by the same toxic problems. How often do we hear of a piece of forest actually discovered, rather than destroyed? Lua Borghesio 20 Conservation IN TANZANIA and Lawrence Wagura break that trend and tell TNRF charts the pluses and minuses of us about a pristine patch in Kenya's Taita Hills. conservation in one of the world's richest biodiversities. Here is its score card. 60 GO VISIT TO A SEYCHELLES ISLAND – GUILT-FREE 26 ZaMBIA - NOW FOR SOMETHING A Worried about your carbon footprint as you travel LITTLE DIFFERENT around looking at nature? Liz Mwambui says go Our intrepid Rhino-man Felix Patton goes in to Cousin Island reserve guilt-free under a unique search of his favourite species in Zambia and has a carbon offset scheme linking the Seychelles and fun safari with a lot of rewards: he also traces the Darfur. history of the species in Zambia. Could this have lessons for other countries? PORTFOLIO 66 AMAZING AMBOSELI 36 COMMUnitY Wildlife Paolo Torchio brings back a bag of gems from MANAGEMENT - WHAT IS BENEFIT Kenya's Ambolseli which show that the park has SHARING? lost none of its lustre for the visitor. You've heard the buzzword, now learn the theory and practice from EAWLS Executive Director Nigel 70 YOUNGSTERS SHOW THE WAY Hunter. FORWARD FOR CONSERVATION The EAWLS and its partners, the Widllife Clubs of Kenya and Satima Trust, held a writing/art SPOTLIGHT competition for Kenyan students and asked them 40 AN INTERVIEW WITH RICHARD why conservation was important? Look at some of WRANGHAM their answers, and take heart. Carol Mbabazi talks to the American chimpanzee expert about how he got into the field of "chimps" and some of his discoveries and lessons learned. REAR WINDOW 76 BY THEIR BAR codes SHALL A YE 44 NEWLY-FOUND Wetland IN KNOW THEM TROUBLE FROM YOUNG HUNTERS Peter Von Buol updates us on a computer It's a newly-found piece of wetland in Kenya but it's programme that can identify individual Zebra already in trouble from young hunters. What can be by their stripes - and how the system might help done to protect the discovery and get the youngsters conservationists spot other animals too. to see the value in it? Martha Mutiso reports. 2 SWARA JANUARY - MARCH 2012 www.eawildlife.org www.eawildlife.org SWARA JANUARY - MARCH 2012 3 Photo:© Paolo Torchio EAWLS WORLDWIDE JANUARY - MARCH VOLUME 35, NUMBER 1 THE EAST AFRICAN REPRESENTATIVES WILD LIFE SOCIETY AUSTRALIA POLAND 2012: 01 JAN-MARCH Trevor Fernandes Grzegorz Kepski PATRONS Wildlife Safari Bialobrzeska 30/39 The President of Ken ya (Australia) 02-341 Warsaw The President of Tan za nia 213 Railway Road Poland Subiaco WA 6008 The President of Ugan da UGANDA BELGIUM Michael Keigwin, CHAIRMAN John Rowland Uganda Conservation Fredrick Owino 11 Rue Faider Foundation, P O Box 1050 Brussels 34020, Kampala VICE-CHAIRMEN Robby Bolleyn UNITED KINGDOM Tom Fernandes, John Emily Otekat, Jake Fotografie Prof Bryan Shorrocks Grieves-Cook Dascottelei 95 Bus 7 Environment Dept. COVER PHOTO: FISH EAGLE AND 2 STEPPE EAGLES 2100 Deurne- University of York Photo: © Paolo Torchio TREASURER Antwerpen Heslington York Michael Kidula Mbaya CANADA YO10 5DD Dr N J C Mathews EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 12-1400 Park Street USA Nigel Hunter Pemberton Keith Tucker V0N 2L1 Chief American Representative TRUSTEES GERMANY Acacia Travel, 19985 Frederick IB Kayanja, Albert Mongi, Klaus Fenger Powers Road, Bend, The impala is the symbol of the East African Hilary Ng’weno, Mohamed Jan Mohamed Zugspitzstr. 65 Oregon 97702 USA Wild Life Society. ‘SWARA’ is the Swahili word 8100 Garmisch- for antelope. Partenkirchen Mr & Mrs Harry Ewell MEMBERS OF COUNCIL Financial Mike Norton-Griffiths, Maj. Gen. (Rtd.) Peter Jutta & Dirk Ohlerich Representatives Schutzbaumstrasse 200 Lyell Avenue Editor Waweru, Joseph Gilbert Kibe, Esmond Martin, 50 Spencerport Andy Hill Philip Coulson D-63073 Offenbach NY 14559-1839 Editorial Board PROGRAMME AREAS Nigel Hunter, Michael Gachanja, IRELAND Wil Smith Conservation Advocacy and Education, David Bockett Karen Zulauf Esmond Martin, William Pike, Paolo Species Conservation, Forests and Water 30 Zion Road Deeper Africa Torchio, Patricia Kameri-Mbote, Dublin 6 4450 Arapahoe Catchment, Wetland, Marine and Coastal Mordecai Ogada, Lucy Waruingi Avenue Reserves, Wildlife Conservation in and outside KENYA Suite 100, Boulder Design & Layout National Parks and protected areas Mark Easterbrook CO 80303 George Okello P O Box 208 www.deeperafrica. HONORARY MEMBERS Malindi com Circulation and Subscriptions Rose Chemweno Chas G Allen Jr, M Bishop, Mr & Mrs H E Suthar Kiran Kurt Leuschner Rocoveri, James H Webb P O Box 1000 70065 Sonora Road Advertising / Sales Meru #267 Gideon Bett EAWLS HEAD OFFICE Mountain Centre NETHERLANDS CA 92561 SWARA Offices P O BOX 20110 – 00200, Stichting EAWLS Riara Road, off Ngong Road, Riara Road, Kilimani, Nairobi Ridderhoflaan 37 Lawrence A Wilson Kilimani, Nairobi Tel: 254-20-3874145 Fax: 254-20-3870335 2396 C J Koudekerk 3727 Summitridge A/D RIJN Drive P O Box 20110-00200 Nairobi, Kenya Email: [email protected] Atlanta SPAIN GA 30340 Tel: + 254 ( 20 ) 3874145 Members are requested to address any Fax: + 254 ( 20 ) 3870335 Lidia Sanchez Rugules que ries to the Executive Director c/o Nutria 26 Gordon Crombie E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] La Moraleja 28109 2725 Park Ave Franklin Park Letters to the Editor: [email protected] SWEDEN IL 60131 Hugo Berch SWARA is a quarterly magazine owned and pub lished Össjö Gård Grant & Barbara by the East African Wild Life So ci e ty, a non-prof it S-266 91 Munka- Winther mak ing or gan i sa tion formed in 1961 following the Ljungby 867 Taurnic Pl. NW amalgamation of the Wildlife So ci e ties of Ken ya and Bainbridge Island Tan za nia (themselves both found ed in 1956). It is the SWITZERLAND WA 98110 Society’s pol i cy to con serve wild life and its habitat Anton-Pieter Duffhuis in all its forms as a regional and in ter na tion al resource. Vollenweld Charles Kasinga Copyright © 2012 East African Wild Life Society. No CH – 8915 Hausen Kenya.com Inc part of this publication may be reproduced by any Am Albis 16152 Beach Blvd means whatsoever without the written consent of the Suite 117 editor. Opin ions ex pressed by con trib u tors are not nec- Therese & Bernhard Huntington Beach es sar i ly the official view of the Society. SWARA ac cepts Sorgen CA 92647-3523 the in for ma tion given by con trib u tors as correct. SWARA appreciates the continued support it Erlenweg 30 receives from Fauna and Flora International 8302 Kloten 4 SWARA JANUARY - MARCH 2012 www.eawildlife.org EDITOR'S LETTER Africans to take more “ownership” of Wrangham, the American chimpanzee their environment, something that expert. the late Wangari Maathai would have Regular readers will know that we try approved of. She is remembered in this to provide as much regional coverage as issue by the award-winning “Bee-man” we can. We are, after all, the magazine of Dino Martins, while his sister-in-eco- the East African Wild Life Society. For the arms, Paula Kahumbu, updates us on the first time in many years SWARA is now real threat of poisons and how Kenyan being distributed in Tanzania and Uganda government interest might light the way and se welcome readers there. You join a for other African governments to halt growing band of supporters throughout this menace. Our Executive Director Nigel the Africa, Europe and America. Hunter, whose safari boots have dust on Our hope for 2012 is that there will be them from Botswana through Tanzania to more readers of the magazine, recipients Uganda and Kenya and beyond, looks at of the EAWLS bi-monthy newsletter and o Africans care about their wild the whole notion of communities getting members of the society. Our advocacy is life and environment? Or is it some benefit from natural resources. only as strong as our resources, and we Djust a playground for the foreign Our partners and allies in the Tanzania know that the most important resource visitor with knock-on bonuses for the Natural Resource Forum have provided us in our armoury is the growing body hotel and lodge industry, plus a windfall with a stock-take of how our neighbour’s of people who care about the sound for the tax coffers? Mordechai Ogada, natural resources are faring in the early governance of our habitat. Please give in typically trenchant style, reminds part of the 21st century. It makes good someone EAWLS membership this year, us in his Opinion contribution that reading and we would encourage you to and help us even more than you do now. the Victorian “zoo” model is outdated follow their activities on www.tnrf.org.
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