Blog & Events - Ol Pejeta Conservancy

[PRESS RELEASE] A step forward in saving Kenya’s rhino habitat

Monday, February 16th, 2015 For Immediate Release Ol Pejeta Conservancy Elodie Sampere, +254 / 727 341 612 elodie.sampere@olpejetaconservancy.org Jambo Mutara Camp – Laikipia Harrison Tuva, +254 718 147 869 htuva@jambochesterhotels.com info@jambocesterhotels.com (Nanyuki – Kenya) – The Agricultural Development Corporation (ADC) has agreed to set up the Mutara Conservancy on 20,000

February 16, 2015 No Comments

Endana Kicks off 2015!

Endana Secondary School, one of the Ol Pejeta’s neighbours and supported schools, will next month become home to the first in-school football stadium in East Africa. The Samuel Eto’o Laikipia Unity Football Academy, School and Environmental Education Centre was designed by PITCH Africa, with construction funded by Samuel Eto’o Private

January 22, 2015 No Comments

Lola and Nabuul Run Free!

Lola and Nabuul, two hand-reared orphaned black rhinos, were last month released into the wild on Ol Pejeta. The release was a triumphant and emotional moment for their keepers, who will continue to monitor their progress in the wild. Lola was born and raised on the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, sister

January 19, 2015 No Comments

Giving Girls a Chance

Imagine your daughter dropping out of fifth grade because she has been forced to marry a man three times her age? Or because she had no access to sanitary towels? Or simply just because she was a girl – expected to be at home doing chores and leaving the pursuit

December 28, 2014 No Comments

Discovering the Secrets of Lions

Forget diamonds, pearls, gold or silver – our lions are wearing something far more valuable round their necks! You might remember back in August we replaced the worn out VHF collars on some of our lionesses with Vectronic GPS collars. Not only do these collars allow us to study our

December 9, 2014 No Comments

Mobile Clinic

We might associate bulk SMS blast with something we’d get from our network provider informing us of the latest data deals, or an advertising company selling us the latest product. But for community members living to the north of Ol Pejeta, it means they will be able to access medical

November 28, 2014 No Comments

Refresher Course for Our Rangers

Our rangers spend endless hours out in the field providing our wildlife department with vital data on all creatures great and small. Counting elephants, reporting on rhinos, tracking lions; all this data forms the basis of our wildlife research and helps influence conservancy management decisions. And of course, the more

November 22, 2014 No Comments

Our Wonderful Wild Dogs

Did you know that African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) have only four toes per foot (whereas our domestic dogs have five on their forefeet)? And that even with this missing digit, they can reach speeds between 40 and 50 miles per hour? There are many reasons why we love these

November 17, 2014 No Comments

Butterfly Effect – PA-MOJA Students Collaborate Online

PA-MOJA has taken a significant step forward in its cultural exchange program. Because PA-MOJA believes that students in Kenya and North America can learn a great deal from each other through collaboration, PA-MOJA president, Silvia Knittel, and PA-MOJA vice-president, Alison Stuart, decided to build an online cross-curricular website where sister

November 15, 2014 No Comments

Sculptures for Surveillance Cameras

Sculptor Camilla Le May met Ol Pejeta CEO, Richard Vigne, in London early November, to hand over four high tech surveillance cameras, bought with funds raised from sales of her sculptures of African wildlife. The cameras will be placed at high-risk spots around the Conservancy fence line and will be

November 13, 2014 No Comments

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