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Cheetah Cub in Samburu
In this year’s IUCN Conference of the Parties meeting it was stated that IUCN recognized the threat to cheetahs posed by the illegal pet trade. As explained in previous blogs, our fecal detection dog project will assist in gathering necessary information about the region of origin using genetic markers. Currently it is not known if
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Salama Research
In the past three months, Cosmas has completed two driving game counts in the Salama study area. Peter Barber returned to Kenya from Canada to visit different areas of Kenya and to assist ACK. Peter has assisted with driving and walking game counts for the last several years. In the May game count Cosmas and
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KWS Officers Visit Salama Research Area">KWS Officers Visit Salama Research Area
Our research has been affiliated with Kenya Wildlife Services since 2001. Each year we submit study results, achievements and data to KWS to assist with cheetah conservation decisions. In the field we work closely with the Senior Warden, Community Warden, Science Officer and Area Rangers. During project planning we consult with specialists in the topic
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Scat analysis
Deanna has also been assisting in setting up the laboratory portion of the scat prey hair analysis. We hired Viola Rono as the laboratory technician. Viola had training in Biology and Micro-biology and had previously conducted an internship with the KWS laboratory through the veterinary department. Viola has perfected the mounting methodology for the hair
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Detection Dog
Chai and Cujo are not the first dogs trained by ACK staff and students. In 2008 – 2010 we trained my pet dog Ginger. A PhD candidate, Chifuyu Beckett (Hawksby) worked diligently to train Ginger. However, Ginger had a very strong bond to me, and the changes in ownership/training caused stress to both Ginger and to me. Ginger is
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March Welcome (belated)
It has been a very busy couple of months for Action for Cheetahs in Kenya. We welcomed the return of Deanna Russell to our field team. Deanna will volunteer with us for three months as a dog trainer, learning about methods of detection training. Deana is working with two young dogs. The first is Chai, a rescue dog
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March Game Counts in Salama
Our March counts finished just before the rains began. Each morning the clouds threatened to make the driving sloppy, but the real rains started after the counts were finished. We saw all the cheetah’s favorite prey scattered across the four farms — gazelle, dikdik, duiker, bushbuck,impala, hare, sprinhare… and we saw an aardvark as a special bonus. Zebra,
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The Walk With the Elephant Man
Blog by volunteer, Peter Barber During the month of February, a Kenyan elephant researcher, Jim Nyamu of Elephant Neighbors Center walked from Mombasa on the coast to the capital city of Nairobi to raise awareness about elephant poaching. Jim walked the 500 kilometers in 14 days. On February 21st, Jim was scheduled to walk through our research area
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February Game Count Visitors
Our third set of game counts are in the eighth of twelve months. ACK conducts driving counts to determine wildlife density, abundance and distribution. At the end of this series of counts we will have six years of data that will give us the trend in game across the Kima, Kiu, Stanley, Aimi and Malili
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Samburu Monitoring
In early December, we went to Meibae to meet with the ACK staff and to finalize all of the game count transects for 2013. Lentaam spent a significant amount of time working wtih Soulh and Moses to determine the best means for covering a maximum area in each block of the southern section of the conservancy. Cheetahs were
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