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Mara Poachers and hippo attack

Category: Mara Triangle, Podcasts | Date: Feb 28 2008 | By: admin

Friends,

Today I’m going to try a much awaited experiment and upload a podcast -

I recorded this in the Mara Conservancy last week where I spent three days finding out more about the effects of the collapse of tourism on this world renowned conservation area.

I hope you enjoy sound trip which hopefully will give the visually impaired a feel for the Mara which is among my most favourite places in the world.

I’m attaching photographs to help you visualise the patrol. These 5 minutes reflect what happened during the 4 hours anti-poaching patrol in which we were searching for 7 hippo killing poachers. Kimujino has more on the arrest of these poachers on his

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This is the sign between the Mara Reserve and Transmara Reserve which together make up the Masai Mara
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A hippo slide

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On patrol looking for footprints on the soft earth

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Hippo in the Mara river
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Can you see the new born hippo by his mothers legs?

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