Maasailand Preservation Trust

Another quick post from us I’m afraid.  All is very busy here as usual.

Here is a picture of Bosco, lead dog of our tracker dog unit Delta Mobile.  The picture was taken for a recent article written by MPT Chairman, Richard Bonham.  For more information on Delta Mobile please click this link.

The photo shows Bosco and some of Richard’s favorite conservation tools!

Asante,

The MPT Team

Another brief blog from us I’m afraid! But rest assured there is much that we want to share with you and it will be posted as soon as we have time!

We are all being kept very busy here. We are currently hosting and working with a film crew here to make a documentary on our tracker dog unit, Delta Mobile. This is very exciting for us as we will get to show more people just how fantastic the team are. We will share more with you when it is finished but for now here is a picture of filming on the plains during yesterday’s spectacular sunset.

Stay posted for more news.

Gwili

Just a quick blog from us today. All is busy in the MPT office with Mbirikani Community Game Scouts’ preparing for their next patrol and the three Predator Compensation Fund claims made yesterday need verifying. We are very happy with the response to our last blog on PCF and will provide more information on it tomorrow.

But for now we wanted to share with you some news from our MCGS and Bosco, the chief Bloodhound of Delta Mobile, who recently had a successful operation within the Chyulu National Park, which borders Mbirikani Group Ranch to the East.

The members of Delta Mobile were called to the scene when informers and our Game Scouts uncovered a poacher’s hideout in a small patch of forest on a hillside of the northern Chyulu Range. Found within the camp were 16 Wildebeest, 8 Zebra and 1 Eland carcasses. Below is a picture of Bosco and the team planning how best to catch these poachers.

An ambush was laid but the poachers caught wind of this on their return and fled. Bosco was immediately put on their scent and tracked for over 5km across the beautiful yet barren hillsides with little or no visible signs to go on. After a long chase the two men were captured and taken to the nearby Kenya Wildlife Service outpost where they were locked up in a temporary holding cell until being handed over to the police.

As usual Bosco proved himself worth of his title ‘Officer Bosco’ and all were very proud of him. Below is a photograph of him with some of the gamemeat and snares recovered.

Incidents like this occur regularly for our Mbirikani Community Game Scouts and Delta Mobile’s ability to track fleeing poachers across terrain that human trackers would struggle with is invaluable as an anti-poaching tool.

Stay posted for more news from us!

The MPT Team