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Shimba Hills Vervet Release // August
Five young vervets were released on Wednesday the 27th into Shimba Hills
National park after a three week re-habitation programme together with
partner Kerstin Handelman. The release was a complete success as the vervets were
behaving normally during the followed of three days. They entered the
forest, ate wild foods, alarm called to predators and interacted as a
wild troop. |
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Infant Female
Baboon Rescue on Lamu Island // August
On Sunday and Monday of last week, Trust volunteer Dan Armstrong
traveled to Lamu on the 24th and 25th to the north coast of Kenya to
retrieve an infant yellow baboon. The Trust is releasing her over
this weekend into a local baboon troop in Diani. Unfortunately, after
three attempts at a release, the infant was killed by wild males. |
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Terrapin and
Tortoise Release // August
Last week, three days apart, we had to release two creatures
not very related to monkeys – a terrapin and a tortoise. |
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Diani Road Traffic Accident Kills Two Colobus // August
Early Saturday morning, the Trust was called to Diani Beach Road to pick
up > 6 month old juvenile colobus killed by a Matatu (local taxi-bus)
driver and investigate a second adult female hit by the same vehicle.
The mother died en route to the Trust's vet clinic for examination. |
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Tragedy // July
On Monday 28th July at about 10:30am we had to pick up a dead Colobus.
It had climbed up the pylons onto the transformer where it got
electrocuted. |
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Lucky Male Vervet Gets X-ray at Diani Beach Hospital + Pin Surgery
// July
A Vervet male was trapped in north Diani by a
local resident after seeing that his leg was severely broken. After
Bakari successfully darted him, he was taken to Diani Beach Hospital for
X-rays to determine the exact extent of the fracture in the left leg.
Successful pin surgery was performed on Wednesday by Dr. Nick de Sousa
of WSPA at the KSPCA office in Mombasa. |
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The Trust Responds
to Beached Dolphin Emergency // July
We
received a call late Tuesday evening of a beached dolphin north of the
Colobus Cottage and responded with two teams to search and aid in
getting the dolphin back into the water. Upon arrival and an extensive
search, we discovered a group of local folks had helped the dolphin a
number of times to head back beyond the reef. It seemed to be stunned
by being stung by jellyfish, and had recovered enough strength to swim
by the third attempt. |
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Young Male Baboon and Female Vervet Rescue // June
In
cooperation with the Kenyan Society for the Protection of Animals (KSPCA),
we received two new primates, a vervet and a baboon, that were being
kept illegally in captivity for sale or trade. Both were malnourished
and the baboon’s legs were badly atrophied, but both are recovering and
gaining strength. |
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Snare Mania //
March-June
Between March and June 2003 we had six snare victims, two from as far
away as the North coast. We captured five of these, removed their
snares and returned them to their respective home ranges. One sadly
disappeared after the first sighting. Of the snare victims, three were
Sykes monkeys and the other three, vervets. |
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Hardy // June
For four days, between 24th and 27th June we nursed a bush baby that had
been found injured on the side of the road. It was unwell and its hind
limbs were paralysed. It fought hard to stay alive but sadly succumbed
on the forth day. |
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De-snaring by
Youth for Conservation // April
On April 19th a youth group from Nairobi, Youth for conservation – who
specialise in de-snaring, came over and had a sweep of the Diani
forests. They removed a number of snares and de-activated others. |
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Green Turtles // March-April
In March and April, three dead Green turtles were washed on to the
beach. |
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Leadership Woes // January
On 27th January, we had to trap and treat a male Sykes from one of
the local troops. One eye was very swollen, and the other was half
shut, perhaps as an effect of the other one. Due to his disability,
his position as a dominant male was being threatened as he was
unable to properly defend it. The Sykes was treated at our vet
clinic and two days later he was recovered and reintroduced back to
his troop. He is still the alpha male of his troop to date. |
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Motherly Instincts // January
14th January, a Vervet with a baby was attacked and killed by dogs.
We introduced the infant to our resident Vervet troop and an adult
female who already had her own infant adopted it immediately. Both
infants were nursed and taken care of appropriately. Both infants
have survived well. |
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