Comments on: Lion killer escapes

By: Conversation with a chief | Baraza

Conversation with a chief | Baraza — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:21:35 +0000

[…] podcasts and photos earlier about the tourism collapse here and the killing of a lion by a warthog here. This post is about a conversation I had with Kipas, the village […]

By: Christine C.

Christine C. — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:04:30 +0000

Wow, great posdcast Paula despite mbeing a bit sad about the lioness…though what a surprise ending with the warthog still being alive!!!

By: F. J. Pechir

F. J. Pechir — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:25:55 +0000

Dear Paula, I´m sorry, I don´t have the time yesterday to listen to the podcast, but I do now. Thank you!! your voice is so sweet!

By: 10 Mara magnets | Baraza

10 Mara magnets | Baraza — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 05:58:14 +0000

[…] actually took all those photographs, recorded podcasts, video and did so much more in three days. It felt like a dream….you know what it’s like when […]

By: James Learner

James Learner — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 03:15:02 +0000

That podcast was amazing, it sounds like a narrow escape. I listened to it while I was doing my work, had me laughing laughing aloud and causing a scene!

By: Paula

Paula — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 03:06:45 +0000

FJP - thanks for your comments. If you can listen to the podcast it explains the title of the post “Killer escapes”. I did my MSC research in the Tana River forests - don’t worry, Kenyans will fight the plans to destroy this world heritage.

By: Francis

Francis — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:37:45 +0000

That was pretty amazing, I wonder if hunger made the lioness go after the warthog and made a fatal mistake.

By: F. J. Pechir

F. J. Pechir — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:14:47 +0000

Now the Tana River Delta is in danger! First the Lake Natron in Kenya and Tanzania is threatened by the construction of a soda extraction plant that would destroy the feeding and reproductive areas of lesser flamingos. My ACWP, as a member of the Lake Natron Consultative Group is working hard since months ago with my friend Ken Mwathe head of Birdlife Kenya to stop this project, and I can tell you that at this momment the results are encouraging, but there is a long battle ahead and many scientific research and political work is needed. Now, the Mumias Sugar Company and Tana and Athi River Development Authority want to transform nearly 50,000 acres of the Tana river delta into sugarcane plantations. This area is home to at least 150 species of birds, 22 of them threatened. Appart from this, more than 800 hippos and many elephants, lions, crocodiles and other species live there. Also this Delta supports many human communities, specially during the dry season. The kenya government is considering the scheme but it underestimates the real impact on wildlife that such project will has and is not under the international Ramsar wetland convention. I´m just comment on this with Ken Mwathe, and the good thing is that we, as the Lake Natron Consultative Group, are against this proposal and also will work to stop this plan that would put in extreme danger all wildlife in the Delta. About South Africa´s plan to cull elephants, there are far more than 20,000 elephants killed each year by poachers in Africa, and there are some african countries that face this problem since many years ago. With the proper management and with an adecuate protection to this areas, many elephants could be translocated there, it just depends of the South African government and the help of the private conservational institutions (many of them have the will to help) to do this, and many lands in Africa also could be transformed in refuges for elephants and the tourism be atracted to these areas. As I said earlier, there are plenty of space in Africa (remember, more than 20,000 killed each year) for this south african elephants to be relocated but also they must be protected. But there are no space for such a barbaric cull in a world that has already won so many terrain in the conservation of wildlife. There are options, and a cull will be like the greatest back-step in conservation in many years. The proposed wolf slaughter in the U.S. is another example of this kind of situations, both are totally unacceptable.

By: Theresa Siskind St Petersburg FL

Theresa Siskind St Petersburg FL — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:55:16 +0000

Paula, correct me if I’m wrong, but this warthog was alive and managed to escape. I’m guessing the nerve roots will eventually die, and he will loose the rest of the tooth. Hopefully he will survive. How did you guess the approximate age of this poor, unlucky lioness?

By: F. J. Pechir

F. J. Pechir — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:06:57 +0000

Thanks Paula for this certainly strange story. Warthogs sometimes hurt a lion during a confrontation, but it is the first time that I hear of an adult lion killed in the process. Maybe the battle took place outside the warthog´s den, and then the warthog just returned inside to die. Taking in count the tusk dimension I could say that it is from an adult male warthog. So sorry about both of them…