Giraffe Sanctuary

Category: Uncategorized | Date: Nov 27 2008 | By: giraffesanctuary

North Eastern province has one of the largest concentration of livestock in East Africa, majority of the people being pastoralist. Most of the people depend on livestock for their daily bread, in additions donkeys and camels are used as the most common means of transport within the pastoral landscape . However, donkeys are regarded low class animals and are not given the necesssary attention and care like the camels. Most times you find ferral donkeys within the settlements areas, with serious body conditions or injuries. The above picture is an example one donkeys that recently moved into the santuary following persecution by a farmer after raiding his farm. It is on this basis that we recommend to agencies to start donkey awareness campaigns and save this beast of burden .

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Category: Uncategorized | Date: Nov 16 2008 | By: giraffesanctuary

Farmers in garissa town loose thousands of shillings every yeaar due to over production of tomatoes due to poor marketing strategies. The seasonal ripening of tomatoes allows wastage  as their are no factories to process this perishable  fruit. One of the farmers who I taked to Mrs Hayi Hassan in the photo above  expressed concern and requested the governmnet and other change agentts to assist in marketing and probaly build regional factory to process this  vital fruit. Tomatoes are grown along the fllodplains of Tana river which is the only source of permanent water in the river.

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Category: Uncategorized | Date: Nov 02 2008 | By: giraffesanctuary

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Category: conservation issues | Date: Nov 01 2008 | By: giraffesanctuary

Dear readers

It sad to mention that due to low level of awareness among the locals and increased negative attitude towards large carnivores in the area, hyenas, lions and cheetahs are being killed wherever they encounter with motorist or pastoralist. Crude methods such as knocking down, spearing and poisoning are employed to control carnovores in the area. Carnivroes are also causing a lot of economic lossess to already pressed pastoralist. This Hyena was knocked down near Garissa town, for simply crossing the road. I got an opportunity to question the driver, who simply gave no apparent reason but  said he just wanted to kill because it also kills livestock. This is disturbing trend that is slowly looming in the area and the government agencies need to come in.

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