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The Marathon breaks Records!
The Safaricom Marathon was run on Lewa on Saturday 23 June. The event broke many records and was a great success....more |
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Mawingo gives birth to another calf
Mawingo (meaning cloud in Swahili) is a 18 year old black rhino female. She has given birth to a total of six calves in her life at Lewa....more |
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The rains have come back to Lewa
The rains have come back to Lewa...more |
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Toki on TV
The orphaned cheetah Toki that spent most of his childhood on Lewa is still thriving at Ol Pejeta. Stephen, his friend, is still with him. Watch the programme 'Toki's tale" to find out more about this remarkable cheetah....more |
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Unseasonal rain
Lewa is experiencing very unseasonal rain (over 22inches since the beginning of November) with no prospect of any improvement....more |
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Christmas greeting from Ian Craig
13 rhino born within Lewa in 2006; no rhino lost to poaching; 640 elephant counted last week in the previously conflict torn but now protected Sera Community Conservation area; all the birds are nesting, wonderful rain across all of Kenya especially on L...more |
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Lewa's floods.
Kenya is experiencing the most extraordinary rain right across the country....more |
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Rains on Lewa and baby elephant rescued.
Rains on Lewa and baby elephant rescued....more |
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Rain and Rhino celebrations!
The short rains started last weekend and yesterday the rangers found two new baby white rhino....more |
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Another black rhino birth on Lewa!
On Monday 16 October one of our Rangers, Rajimen Lesakut, reported seeing Ndito, a 16.8 year old black rhino with a new calf....more |
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September News
The annual Safaricom Marathon held on Lewa on the 24th of June this year was a huge success!...more |
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JOB, A BLACK RHINO FROM OL PEJETA SPECIAL VISIT TO LEWA
Over the Easter weekend, Lewa received an unusual report from Ol Pejeta that one of the adult male black rhinos in the Conservancy had severe injuries in his eyes inflicted in a fight with another male the previous week....more |
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THE NEXT GENERATION ATHLETES VISIT TO THE UK
The four children who had won the 2005 Lewa Safaricom mini marathon left for London for a five days visit on the 25th April 2006....more |
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Finally the long awaited rains have arrived on Lewa and the North!
In the last week we have had lost and lots of rain and it looks like it will continue for some time. We all are very relieved about this and we hope that the communities up north will be able to recover quickly from the recent drought. ...more |
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LEWA EDUCATION TRUST -February Report
February has been a busy month for Lewa Education Trust...more |
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Anthrax update
An outbreak of anthrax 100 km north of Lewa in the Wamba area that began in December 2005 appeared to be disproportionately killing equids and, in particular, Grevy's zebras....more |
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Drought has broken
Half of Kenya has wonderful rain over the past ten days....more |
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Goodbye to Stella
On Sunday, 5th February 2006, Lewa woke up to a frenzy of activity as a joint team involving the Kenya Wildlife Service and the Conservancy personnel was mobilised in an operation that was to culminate in translocation of Stella - a male black rhino to Me ...more |
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British High Commission - "Next Generation"
At last years Safaricom Marathon the British High Commission kindly donated a prize to the first two boys and girls, in the Fun Run for kids, to travel to London in early 2006....more |
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Daisy is dead
Unfortunately our hand-reared oryx, Daisy, was killed last night by lions....more |
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Toki is moving to Ol Pejeta
It is a testament to the progressive and far sighted policies of Ol Pejeta that, whilst dealing with enormous challenges on a daily basis, it makes the time, resources and space available to one rather small, big cat....more |
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Another hand-reared rhino calf on Lewa!
On 10th of October Mawingo, our 15 year old partially blind black rhino mother gave birth again to a baby boy, a mere 18 months after she calved Tula...more |
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Daisy, the orphan oryx, has had a baby!
Daisy, the orphan oryx, has had a baby!...more |
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Toki News and Adult literacy education
Toki is doing very well. Since he had problems getting on with the other cheetahs here on Lewa it was decided to move him onto a neighbouring farm close to the Lewa boundary....more |
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Elephant rescue
Yesterday afternoon at 2.30 we received an urgent call from a nearby farm, Embori that borders the Mt. Kenya Forest Reserve, reporting an elephant that had fallen into a pit latrine and was totally stuck....more |
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Kip in Athens!
A Masai chief's impressions of Athens...more |
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New Baby White Rhino to be Hand Reared
On the 25th February we were contacted by the manager of Solio Ranch Game Reserve who told us he had a very young baby white rhino with no mother....more |
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Rain and rhino calves.
Our rhino population has increased by one more taking the number of black to 40 and with our white population at 36 so we are now 76 in all....more |
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Rhino Poaching and an Eye Clinic
On Sunday 10th October a fresh white rhino carcass, shot just a few hours before, was found by a vehicle on a game drive in the Game Reserve in Laikipa....more |
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Assorted News from Lewa
A new rhino, animal translocations and marathon updates ...more |
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Rhino Poaching OUTSIDE Lewa
Poaching by cable snaring reveals the true horrors of what has been taking place on a nearby Rhino sanctuary that Lewa is assisting....more |
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Wildlife Reports
The last month or so on lewa wildlife conservancy has been one eventful month....more |
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Community Development
The May month was pretty busy being almost the half way of the year. Most communities were evaluating what they had achieved in the year 2003/2004. There was a Wildlife Policy Development Workshop held in Mombasa that focused on formulation...more |
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Mawingo’s fourth calf!
Mawingo, the partially blind black rhino female, gave birth to her fourth calf a few weeks back. She was spotted with the calf and did surprise us....more |
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Lewa assists in catching poachers on neighbouring rhino sanctuary.
Following several cases of rhino poaching on a neighbouring rhino sanctuary in the district in the last two years, Lewa Wildlife Conservancy (LWC) was approached to assist the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS), in anti-poaching activities on the ranch. ...more |
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Rhino News and More
New Black Rhino Calf Born We have had our fourth black rhino calf born! The mother (Njota) and baby were spotted for the first time early this morning. We are absolutely delighted (again)!!! ...more |
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Lord Deedes Visits Lewa
As part of the London Daily Telegraph Christmas Appeal Lord Deedes has just finished a 6 day visit to the Conservancy, Il Ngwesi and Namunyak....more |
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Lewa Wildlife Conservancy
The past 6 months have been a bewildering time, where we have seen just how vulnerable this fragile resource of Africa's wildlife really is. ...more |
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