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Category: Uncategorized | Date: Apr 27 2009 | By: Maina

The WildlifeDirect bloggers have been busy this last week. They have brought several stories about their work and the aspects of conservation that they are are concerned with. These are the Stories that the WildlifeDirect team found to be of key interest.

Iregi Mwenja of the Bushmeat in Kenya blog gave us several pointers as to why we may lose the fight against illegal bushmeat in Kenya.  The overriding reasons they provided for this unfortunate realization was because of bad laws, inadequate enforcement of the same laws, the twin devil of population growth and poverty and slow reforms in the wildlife sector among others. You can read the entire story in the blog.

On a more positive note, the team at Tacugama is making  good progress in enriching the chimpanzee enclosure at the centre. With the help of Ruud and Esther, volunteers I presume, they are enriching the center’s enclosures buy constructing play platforms for the younger chimps. In Enclosure A, the platform has already taken shape and up to 30 younger chimps spend most of their day there. You can read about this and watch a video of the chimps playing in the blog.

Elsewhere, Miroslav Bobek of The Revealed blog  shares with us beautiful pictures of forest elephants of Dzanga Bai in Central African Republic. Apart from the wonderful photography and warm storytelling, this blog post awakens in me an urge to go into Central African Republic, gather some conservationists and coerce them to blog everyday…just for you. Read about this and marvel at the amazing pictures in the blog.

Photo: courtesy The Revealed

There are other blogs who posted last week including the Orangutan Foundation answering some good questions from the readers while introducing us to Asian large cats blogs. The Lion Guardians also show their happiness after receiving a new camera and camera trap as gifts from a reader in Utah.

There were more stories which I believe you read when they were published but we just wanted to remind you of these particular ones. Let’s see what our bloggers will be up to this week.