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BARINGO COUNTY, Kenya – Last December in the town of Marigat, in Kenya’s central Baringo county, Paul Chepsoi had to excuse himself from a dinner of nyama choma (roasted goat) to take a call. Upon returning to the table, he explained that it was to arbitrate a dispute over stolen cows. “If I don’t get […]
Lake Baringo burst its banks in 2013, bringing an influx of the yellow-billed storks and Spoonbill spectacle to behold.
On a trip to Kenya, wildlife photographer Ami Vitale documented a tower of giraffes being rescued from a remote island.
Photograph by AMI VITALE Eager to see these giraffes return to their homeland, Pokot and Ilchamus community members got to work. Within a year they had established the Ruko Conservancy, a 44,000-acre community conservancy where both the Pokot and Ilchamus work. “It wasn’t easy,” says Rebby Sebei, a Pokot community member who manages the conservancy. “But both sides were keen for change.” In 2011 the conservancy received its first group of Rothschild’s giraffes: eight animals relocated from other areas in hopes that they’d multiply and repopulate the area. The giraffes were place...
Apr 14, 2021 02:56 PM EDT Ngarikoni and baby Noelle were the remaining out of nine giraffes to be Saved. How do you rescue a herd of giraffes that are trapped on a swiftly sinking island? Float them to the mainland on a custom-constructed barge - a "GiRaft." (Photo : Rachel Claire) Save Giraffes Now (SGN) That is how a months-long rescue operation for giraffe in Kenya currently concluded on April 12, taking the last of nine giraffes that were stranded to safety, according to a statement by Save Giraffes Now (SGN), an American nonprofit organization that collaborated with conservationists in...