http://giraffesanctuary.wildlifedirect.org Thu, 27 Nov 2008 08:03:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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, ... http://giraffesanctuary.wildlifedirect.org/2008/11/27/donkeys-bare-the-burden/ 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 ... http://giraffesanctuary.wildlifedirect.org/2008/11/16/tomatoes-floods-garissa/ Name ID/No. photo Unit Mobile and Mpesa Account Mohamud Garat Ali 21463484 Deputy head 0727025119 Mohamud  Abdi Dahir 23506313 Anti Poaching 0713750573 Ibrahim  Abdi Gure 13120661   Surveillance 0713401861 Roble Dirow yussuf 3518132 Anti poaching 0723139488 Hassan Gure Bulale 25008575 Surveillance 07248799211 Siyat Bundid Haji 22954683 Surveillance 0725950212 Abdullahi Adan Elmi 9085960 Anti poaching 0714776488 Affey Ibrahim Gabow 22900793   Anti poaching 0728749550 Dubow Subane ALI   Anti poaching 0710827291 Hassan Ahmed Afey 3518065 Warden 0713750513 Share This http://giraffesanctuary.wildlifedirect.org/2008/11/02/the-scouts-of-the-sanctuary/ 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 ... http://giraffesanctuary.wildlifedirect.org/2008/11/01/road-accidents-major-threat-to-wildlife-in-garissa/  The world’s tallest animal species—the giraffe—may actually be several species, and some of them are highly threatened with extinction, according to new genetic studies supported by the Wildlife Conservation Society. The genetic evidence indicates that there may be at least six species of giraffe in Africa, whereas the existing taxonomy ... http://giraffesanctuary.wildlifedirect.org/2008/10/01/how-many-species-of-giraffes-exist/ Poster of the sanctaury, Courtesy of TEP, Terra Nuova and Steffani Gendera Dear friends we members of the giraffe sanctuary would like to appeal for digital cameras that we desparately need to report our efforts in this vast area. We have 14 scouts who are sharing only one  digital camera to report their daily ... http://giraffesanctuary.wildlifedirect.org/2008/09/30/urgent-appeal-for-digital-cameras/ Dears friends Lack of registration of the sanctuary as an indepent organisation was one of the problems we had and that slowed down our progress, but efforts are currently underway and we will be soon an indepent organisation. Their was initial internal conflict among the communities on who should run the affairs ... http://giraffesanctuary.wildlifedirect.org/2008/09/30/hope-of-registration-soon/ The Somali Giraffe (photo courtesy of federicco vernossei)  or Reticulated Giraffe, Giraffa camelopardalis reticulata, is a subspecies of giraffe native to Somalia and Northeastern kenya. Reticulated giraffe can interbreed with other giraffe subspecies in captivity or if populations are low in the wild. The reticualted giraffe is the most well-known of the ... http://giraffesanctuary.wildlifedirect.org/2008/08/29/facts-about-the-reticulated-giraffes/ Dear freinds I am saddned to share that we lost another male giraffe to over speeding track driver along Garissa Ijara road which directly passes through the sanctaury. The un identified motorist knocked down the giraffe and never stopped to see what happend. The scouts have confirmed that it was ... http://giraffesanctuary.wildlifedirect.org/2008/08/18/another-giraffe-dies-of-road-accident/ The sanctuary is not only famous for the beautiful reticulated giraffes but also offers wide range of other sceniic sites that could excite bird watchers. A survey earlier carried out in the sanctaury recorded over 200 species of birds in the sanctuary. However the current estimate is much higher than ... http://giraffesanctuary.wildlifedirect.org/2008/08/09/birds-in-the-midst-of-pastoralists/