Welcome to the Garissa Community Giraffe Sanctuary
Category: Uncategorized | Date: Oct 05 2007 | By: admin
Dear readers, my name is Abdulahi Hussein from Garissa in North Eastern Kenya. This blog is about the protection and conservation of reticulated giraffes affected by armed conflicts in this remote part of Kenya. I work with a local community that has decided to create a sanctuary for about 30 giraffes in 1991, today there are over 500! Below is a picture of the community gathering at a local school for a meeting about the giraffe sanctuary. You can see how much interest the project has created.
The government has recognized the efforts of the local people by appointing one of us as an honorary warden. Below is a picture of Mr. Hassan Afey, the honorary warden who manages 14 volunteer scouts.
I am writing this blog to help raise awareness and funds to support the work of these dedicated young men. These men were trained by an Italian NGO called Terra Nuova and are very active and enthusiastic about their work which includes removing snares for trapping animals.
This picture is Mr. Alberto Rognoni from Terra Nova during the start up of this project. Unfortunately the project with Terra Nova ended and we now have to raise funds to keep it going. Below is a picture of me talking to members of the community to raise awareness about this project. We are standing on the banks of the Tana River, Kenya’s largest river that arises from Mount Kenya. I am the guy on the left.
I hope you will enjoy this blog and support our efforts.
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100% of your donation, minus a small bank fee, will go to your intended purpose.
Donations made here are safe.
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Donations Received
- Nov 12th Eamonn M. USD55.00
- Sep 11th Jennifer C. USD22.00
- Jun 30th Kelli G. USD20.00
- Jun 30th Simon T. USD33.00
- May 26th Mary K. USD15.00
- May 4th Pirjo I. USD55.00
- Apr 26th Mary K. USD15.00
- Mar 26th Mary K. USD15.00
- Feb 26th Mary K. USD15.00
- Feb 19th Pirjo I. USD33.00
- Jan 26th Mary K. USD15.00
- Jan 1st Pirjo I. USD33.00
- Dec 26th Mary K. USD15.00
- Dec 24th Brittany R. USD16.50
- Dec 8th Jon T. USD27.50
- Nov 26th Mary K. USD15.00
- Nov 14th Pirjo I. USD22.00
- Oct 26th Mary K. USD15.00
- Oct 3rd Pirjo I. USD55.00
- Sep 29th Wim H. USD33.00
8 Responses to “Welcome to the Garissa Community Giraffe Sanctuary”
LouiseL, on 05 Oct 2007
Abdulahi, I am very much looking forward to reading this blog. There is a fabulous picture of an Okapi tongue in the Lomami blog (http://wildlifedirect.org/lomami/2007/09/17/i-remember-okapi-first-epulu-next-lomami/)
and would be great to get a similar one for their dry country cousins the reticulated giraffe -
Francis Kamau, on 07 Nov 2007
Ali, this is fanstastic. The giraffes should be conserved under all costs. Sounds good on how you have mobilised the community.
Regards
Liz, on 14 Dec 2007
All the best with your work.
mohamed abdi ahmed, on 31 Dec 2007
ali congratulations! good work done, im very much delighted with this. there is a dire need to conserve the ignored northern wildlife potentoins. i will urge our welwishers to come to the rescue of this endangered hirola and the northern retticulate giraffes.may god pless this good work.
faisal aden, on 23 Jan 2008
good job! you did a wonderful work. there is alot we can show the wold if we conserve our wildlife and not kelled them for meat.i hope there is people like you out there.could you please include your pictures some picturs of northeastern province towns.thanks
Sadia Aden, on 14 Apr 2008
i love what you guys are doing keep up the good work. i need more African men who support and protect our environment.
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