Category: In the News | Date: Jun 10 2008 | By: William

Many thanks to Emily Meehan for her piece on Wired.com; Life, Death and Twitter on the African Savannah. It was great fun having Emily here at the beginning of last month, and the article is also a very enjoyable read.

After the article appeared online the number of people following Kimojino on Twitter rocketed, and then again some when Twitter featured Kimojino on their blog.

Thank you to all of the team at Twitter for your kind words, and also for your support - you helped save us a lot of time.

Last month we also enjoyed the company of Richard Lough who did a couple of radio pieces for Deutsch Welles. Thank you Richard for coming out to see us, it was great to have you here.

You can listen to Richard’s piece by clicking below, and also make sure you check out Richard’s Blog.

dw_kenya_mara_crisis.MP3

Also, before I forget, you can click below to listen to Richard Leakey’s interview about the Mara Triangle on National Geographic:

Leakey discusses Mara on Nat Geo.

Thank you also to BBC Online for covering our story, and also to BBC World, Radio BBC Glasgow and BBC Radio 5 who were all kind enough to do interviews when I was in the UK. Also thank you to the BBC team in Nairobi, Nawaz Shah & Adam Mynott, who came here twice to cover two stories -the collapse in tourism and the poisoning of the lions. The poisoning of the lions will come out in the UK on the 17th June, on BBC News at 6.

Also a great big thank you to the team from the German Channel ZDF, who also covered the story.

We would also like to thank all of the bloggers who have recently written about the Mara Triangle, your support is greatly appreciated. Thanks to Search Marketing Guru, Wandering the World, 120% New, The Charity Place, Problem Girl, A Californian Living Down South, Knowledge Cafe, Beyond 90 Seconds, Random, Nekonekoyashiki, Eye Dull Musings, Hans Watson, Esmon Net, Waving or Drowning, Itshee, Tuphat and losing it, jcsb, Lasagne and Chips, MGH Word of Mouth, Arikfr, Something Simple, Faster Future, Terrible Swift Word, GiroPais, Kenya Pundit, La maquina del tiempo, Sciblog, Much Todo About Nothing, Ethics and Animals, Cybersoc, Podnosh and Nothoney.

You’re all doing a great job in getting the story out to as many people as possible. Thanks again to each and every one of you.

Kimojino is still posting excellent photos over on Flickr. Click here.

Thank you everyone for all the great coverage, despite these efforts donations dropped last month to half what they normally are and to be honest, I can’t for the life of me work out why. If anyone has any ideas, let me know.

And if anyone has a dollar spare that they want to put towards the rangers’ work in the Mara, please do! Thank you.

Interesting Links:

Emily’s Blog: African Heroes: stories of brave badasses

Richard’s Blog: Nairobi Notebook

Kimojino on Twitter: www.twitter.com/maratriangle You will also notice that these updates now appear in the sidebar, just under all the banners of Friends of the Mara.

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