Dear Friends, It has been an exciting long year! Duma Duke has not been too talkative of late. Exercising his well-earned right of seniority, he prefers to laze around, showing off his still impressive magnificence. He and siblings are up early each morning on their high “throne” overlooking all the other residents of the Orphanage [...]
While over 60 million viewers delighted in watching the royal English wedding, we were having a bit of fun with our own Ms. Kate and her friends at the Animal Orphanage. Do you have a “Prince for Ms. Kate,” you asked. While Prince William and his beautiful bride followed their heart, but there’s no such [...]
A little more than 6 months ago we named this little new born baby bongo “Ms Kate” at the Animal Orphanage. She has since stolen all of our hearts with her beauty and totally loving personality. The royal wedding fever has not missed the slopes of Mount Kenya, so Bea, Fundi and the keepers are [...]
One night late last year high on the Mountain above us, secret romance did its magic. Prince William proposed to his long time love Kate Middleton and she gracefully accepted to become his future Queen of England. That same night a baby bongo was born, (almost within earshot of the lone lovers, we like to [...]
Our first release of 10 Bongo that had been planned and worked on for the last two years has once again been postponed. Two days before the actual release, with all preparations, staff and equipment “at the ready” the Kenya Wildlife Service advised us that they wished to postpone the first release until they could [...]
“He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times” – fitting words of wisdom by famous poet Schiller for the Bongo Boy who quietly left us this summer but will forever remain very special to us. Noah – once bright chestnut colored, his coat darkened with age. Almost black at [...]
January 2004 in retrospect: The BBC amongst other reputed television networks reports the return of 20 of Africa’s rarest and most elusive antelope, the Mountain Bongo, to Mount Kenya Wildlife Conservancy. 5 years on – January 2009: In anticipation of a first wilderness release later this year, a BBC film crew has returned to Mount [...]
10 May 2008 – Ajabu’s big day. In the lush surroundings of her beautiful forest home at Mount Kenya Wildlife Conservancy, she has chosen this day for the arrival of her firstborn. Nature sees to it that, instinctively, mother and young will always find each other but how do we, their human caretakers, tell them [...]