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 [...]
Here is an article published in the March, 2011, edition of East Africa’s Destination magazine, written by Juliet Barnes. “In the vast savannahs of Africa there is a dimension of time and space that is an echo of our own beginnings and which reminds us that we were not born initially to live in the [...]
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 [...]
This year it was to be different – that gift of real, lasting value for your special someone. After all, Christmas is the season of giving… A mere few days away from prominently displaying your find under the Christmas tree it becomes painfully clear that you’ve left it too late again – or did Father [...]
“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 [...]
The call of the Kenya Wildlife Service reached us at 6.30 a.m. – three Hartebeest, commonly also known by their melodic Swahili name Kongoni, will be arriving at Mount Kenya Wildlife Conservancy within the hour. These are no ordinary Hartebeest, however. They are Lelwel or more commonly known as Mount Kenya Hartebeest, a subspecies quite [...]
We LOVE to hear from our visitors and supporters! To us your words are the encouragement and incentive to strive harder towards our goal of beating extinction at the finish line. Here’s another short excerpt of a recent letter received that we’d like to share: If a picture tells a thousand words then those taken [...]
Since the last Mount Kenya Wildlife Conservancy’s update from June. We have had another baby Bongo. This one was born at the Animal Orphanage where they had moved the mother to give her a safe place for birthing. She experienced previous difficulty, but this one went fine. Peter Fundi and Bunge were on ‘standby’ but [...]
Our friend Denis Murphy the famous wildlife Artist just visited our Green Page: www.animalorphanagekenya.org/members Here’s what he had to say: I had a look at the green page with the story of the two Brandys. She is too adorable for words. And the picture of the “injured” policeman is priceless. As to the previous two [...]
My dear Friends, In Kenya, rain is usually concentrated in two brief periods during the year. Oddly, this first half of the year it has been almost one long stretch of rain, denying the usual drought its disastrous effects. Never have we seen so much green for so long. Fewer animal orphans resulted. The [...]
My dear Friends, For those of us that are born optimists, 2007 has started well. Unusual amounts of heavy precipitation may have caused some havoc in parts of East Africa, but for us here at the Conservancy the rain has had some very positive results. The vegetation is once again very lush and thick, the [...]
My dear Friends, With the holiday season in full swing and the New Year on the doorstep I have much good news to report. At long last it has now been confirmed that one small group of Bongo still survives on Mount Kenya. The group are reported to live in a remote area of dense [...]