Category: Cattle Rustlers, Sponsor a Ranger | Date: Jun 09 2008 | By: Kimojino

Leyian and his wife, Naponari

Yesterday morning, I went with a group of rangers from Serena, Oloololo and Mara Bridge to visit Ranger Johnson Leyian at his home.

Ranger Leyian was shot twice at the end of April when chasing cattle rustlers who had stolen cattle from the local communities up on the escarpment. His injuries were very serious with Doctors saying that he arrived at Aga Khan hospital, Nairobi, just in time.

He is very well and is able to walk, but there is a small limp that is a recent development over the last three days, and he has had some pain appearing in his lower abdomen. We know that he will consult with the Doctor again today.

Leyian and fellow rangers and workers from the Conservancy.

Leyian’s family were so happy to see us, despite already the many visitors that were there. Members of the local church were there to pray for Leyian as well as the people from many of the surrounding villages.

We all pray that Leyian will make a full recovery.

Please help if you can with some of our outstanding bills & Air Ambulance charges, or consider if you can, sponsoring one of our rangers.

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Category: Poachers, Sponsor a Ranger | Date: Apr 09 2008 | By: Kimojino

This morning I went out on my routine patrol, and when I was driving along the track taking me to the border I noticed some footprints in the dirt. I stopped the car, alighted, and checked closely to discover the footprints of five different men.

I called back to the main station at Serena, and reported the same to the patrol team. They came straight away and I showed them the footprints.

Rangers coming back from today’s patrol.

They started tracking the footprints at 9am, and followed the trail for 13, 14 kilometres over the border into Serengeti. At around 1pm, the rangers found dried hippo meat hidden in a drainage line. They immediately searched the surrounding area and fortunately managed to find and arrest three of the poachers. They were unable to find the location of the other two poachers.

The three poachers, and the dried hippo meat.

The poachers had come in from Tanzania, through the Mara Triangle to the Narok side, and had camped there for no less than seven good days. They had killed a hippo, dried the meat, and were today heading back to their village.

This brings the total number of poachers arrested this month of April to five. Well done to the Serena and Ngiro-are patrol teams!

Ngiro-are and Serena Patrol Teams.

I would also like to thank all of those who have contributed through this blog, and to those individuals and organisations who have sponsored a ranger; it is your support that has kept our men motivated during this time of uncertainty.

A successful day. More photos at flickr.

Please, if you can, help put out the word that we urgently need to find sponsorship for 34 more of our rangers.

Asante sana.

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Category: Sponsor a Ranger | Date: Apr 06 2008 | By: William

Thank you so much to everyone!

A great big thank you to all those individuals who have been incredibly generous and sponsored a ranger (sometimes even two!)

Thank you also to Sunworld Safaris, J.H. Safaris Ltd (sister company to Paws Africa), Jock Anderson’s East African Wildlife Safaris, Safaris Unlimited and Cheesmans’ Ecology Safaris.

34 more rangers to go - keep spreading the word!

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Category: Poachers, Sponsor a Ranger | Date: Mar 27 2008 | By: William

We now have four rangers sponsored. Big thank you to Sunworld Safaris and Paws Africa who were very quick to respond and help out. You will be hearing more about the two of them shortly.

I’ve also just heard that rangers have caught a poacher, I’m not sure of the details yet and the electricity is due to go off soon, so I’ll have to update you all later on tonight.

Until then.

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