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ARABUKO SOKOKE KENYA’S FAMED FOREST GETS REPRIEVE the East African Region Is Well Known 1 JANUARY - MARCH 2015 THE VOICE OF CONSERVATION IN EAST AFRICA CHEATING THE CHEETAH BETTER VIEWER MANNERS REQUIRED ARABUKO SOKOKE KENYA’S FAMED FOREST GETS REPRIEVE The East African region is well known 1. Become a member Conservancy and mail it to 38 for the richness and beauty of its 2. Make a donation Miller Ave, Mill Valley, CA 94941 biodiversity. It has been this that 3. Leave a legacy in your will with EAWLS noted on the memo has made the region a favourite line. Credit card donations can destination for millions of visitors. But 1. If you are interested in becoming a be made by calling Lewa USA’s this precious inheritance is under real member, then this can be done quite Executive Director, Ginger pressure from unplanned development, easily online by visiting our website: Thomson at 415.627.8187. mismanagement, corruption, population www.eawildlife.org; selecting the growth and a lack of understanding click here for more information • For UK, we have now registered that good economic growth depends under the Subscribe or Renew East African Wild Life Society on maintaining a healthy environment Membership title on the home (UK) as a UK Registered Charity in all its attributes as the platform for page, and following the procedures (Charity No. 1153041). Donations development. requested. would be entitled to tax relief. EAWLS (UK) has a dedicated bank The East African Wild Life Society 2. For a donation, we have now made account and the details can be is home grown. We are part of East it possible for you to enjoy tax relief provided by contacting Nigel African Society culture and future. if you live in the USA or UK. Hunter at: We care deeply, in line with Kenya’s [email protected] if Constitution, which states that everyone • For USA, we have a formal you are interested in making a has the right to a healthy environment partnership with Lewa USA, bank transfer. If you wish to use now and for generations to come. who enjoy 501(c)(3) tax relief the cheque option, then these That future demands that we keep our entitlement for donations and should be made out to East biodiversity intact. Therefore the Society legacies. The donations have African Wild Life Society (UK) has advocacy as a major instrument to be made out to Lewa USA and sent to Mrs Emma Stewart, in addressing the threats we face and but it is easy to indicate that Townend of Grange, Dunlop, we don’t flinch in facing up to that the donation is committed to Kilmarnock, KA3 4EG responsibility. But the more support we EAWLS through the Lewa Wildlife get, the stronger our voice becomes. programme. The donation can 3. If considering a legacy, then please be made by visiting www.lewa. contact Nigel Hunter, who can make Please therefore help EAWLS by org or if you would like to make useful information available to you. supporting us. This can be done in three the donation by cheque, please ways. make it out to Lewa Wildlife 26 39 Losers or Survivors. The Mara's Frontlines Cheetah adapt to survive Spotlight 5 Editor's Letter 51 Reprieve for Arabuko-Sokoke Elena Chelysheva has spent 16 Chairman's Letter Forest, but for how long? decades studying cheetah and 18 Director's Letter EAWLS writers analyse the shares some of her insighs and her 20 EAWLS News implications of a decision by fears for this species. 22 News Roundup CAMAC to stop oil exploration in a key piece of coastal forest 44 Q/A With Jake Grieves-Cook enterprises. Gamewatchers CEO Conservation Andy Hill talks to the man behind 26 Shillings or Sense? Time to 55 International Coastal Cleanup the lauded Porini concept of low- strike the balance in the Mara East Africa Results impact, low-density Mara tourism Jonathan and Angela Scott plea S t e v e Tr o t t gives us the league table and draws out lessons for Kenyan for a sensible approach to the of the region’s cleanest beaches and tourism in general. development of Kenya’s national pleas for us to keep beaches tidy. treasure. 48 Community Conservancies in 58 Amboseli Game Camp goes Kenya come of Age 32 Mara Elephant Project with the solar glow Sophie Harrison launches a Not just the Animals Rupert Watson goes to a camp lit regular Northern Rangelands Trust Colin Church briefs us on how a by solar power in an interesting column with a look at what NRT project that focuses on protecting hook-up between provider and does and how it changes habitat the elephant is benefiting to all. consumer. and lives. 2 SWARA JANUARY - MARCH 2015 39 60 55 74 60 Maasai Olympics. From A Field Guide to the larger Lion killing to Athletics Conservation mammals of Tanzania Colin Church let's us watch Maasai Characters By Charles Foley, Lara Foley, test their bravery with sporting kills 70 From a prospective pastoralist to Alex Lobora, Daniela De Luca, rather than lion kills in this exciting a convinced conservationist MaurusMsuha, Tim Davenport & and now regular Maasai Olympic Felix Patton talks to a man who was Sarah Durant event. brought up thinking wildlife was a 63 George Adamson roars from hunting opportunity and a nuisance, An App for East African the grave, 25 years later but is now working in Ugandan bird watchers Paul Udoto of KWS hails the conservation. By Terry Stevenson and John relaunch of Kora camp, made Fanshawe with Brian Finch famous by George Adamson and Elsa. Portfolio 74 The Hyena hind leg tackle Rear Window Munir Virani captures in full tooth 79 A Tale of a tusk with On Safari and claw colour how a hyena takes a happy ending 66 Segera Retreat. Where Luxury down a wildebeest. Giovanna Girardello shares an and Philosophy Meet elephant story with a happy ending, Andy Hill basks in luxury at a new for once. resort blending conservation, art Book Review and communities. 77 Culture Clash By Rupert Watson SWARA JANAURY - MARCH 2015 3 JANAURY- MARCH - VOLUME 39, NUMBER 1 The Impala is the symbol of the East African Wild Life Society SWARA is the Swahili word for Antelope PATRONS The President of Ken ya The President of Tan za nia The President of Ugan da CHAIRMAN Mr. Joseph Gilbert Kibe VICE-CHAIRMEN EDITOR Mr. Philip Coulson Andy Hill Mr. Tom Ferrandes Capt. John E. Otekat EDITORIAL BOARD Nigel Hunter HON. TREASURER Michael Gachanja Michael Kidula Mbaya Esmond Martin EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR William Pike Michael Gachanja Patricia Kameri-Mbote TRUSTEES Munir Virani Frederick IB Kayanja Lucy Waruingi Albert Mongi Adalja Mahendra Krishnalal DESIGN & LAYOUT William Ronkorua Ole Ntimama George Kamau Muhoho George Okello Mahmud Jan Mohamed CIRCULATION AND SUBSCRIPTIONS MEMBERS OF COUNCIL Rose Chemweno Hon. Wilbur Otichilo Ms. Cissy Walker ADVERTISING / SALES Dr. Esmond Bradley Martin Gideon Bett Dr. Margaret Karembu Mr. Mike Watson EAWLS MISSION To advocate and collaborate on the safeguarding and sustainable Copyright © 2015 management of East Africa's natural resources SWARA is a quarterly magazine owned and pub lished by the East African Wild Life So ci e ty, a non-prof it mak ing or gan isa tion formed in SWARA OFFICES 1961. No part of this publication may be reproduced by any means C/O EAWLS Head Office whatsoever without the written consent of the editor. Opin ions P O Box 20110 – 00200, Riara Road, Kilimani, Nairobi ex pressed by con trib u tors are not nec es sar i ly the official view of the Tel: + 254-20-3874145 Fax: +254-20-3870335 Society. SWARA ac cepts the in for ma tion given by [email protected] con trib u tors as correct. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: [email protected] AFRICAN JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY The African Journal of Ecology is Published by Wiley – Blackwell in association with East African Wild Life Society. Purchase a copy of this Journal at Wiley Online Library: EAWLS WORLDWIDE REPRESENTATIVES http://wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/aje. NETHERLANDS SWITZERLAND Stichting EAWLS Therese & Bernhard Sorgen Ridderhoflaan 37 Erlenweg 30 8302 Kloten 2396 C J Koudekerk A/D RIJN USA Grant & Barbara Winther USA 867 Taurnic Pl. NW Mr & Mrs Harry Ewell Bainbridge Island, WA 98110 Financial Representatives FINLAND, SWEDEN, NORWAY 200 Lyell Avenue Spencerport Roseanna Avento NY 14559-1839 [email protected] SWARA appreciates the continued support it receives from +358405355405 Fauna & Flora International 4 SWARA JANUARY - MARCH 2015 Would you take your coffee and croissant into the National Museum? So why do we accept unacceptable the starting line for some crazy rally. It’s behaviour in our Parks and the thoughtless nudging up towards a Conservancies, which display ancient cheetah at rest. It’s allowing a cheetah treasure we should not touch, have a to sit on a vehicles’ roof in blissful certain sanctity and contain, in very ignorance of the fact that the beast is many cases, species on the verge of the probably leaving a “marking” message wildlife equivalent of the Accident and there by mistake – and that it will get Emergency wing – the endangered or lost in the post the moment the car extinction list? moves off. And it’s the sheer lunacy of Is it because widespread going off road when it is not permitted, understanding of the uniqueness of such or getting out of a vehicle to get even places is not ingrained into our social closer to that beast for the prize shot. mores? Is it a sign of human disrespect Aircraft flying into Kenya all have for the environment, the self-same laminated safety advice for their ould you take your croissant arrogance that causes conservationists passengers.
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