Oltukai Conservancy

Category: education, general wildlife, predators | Date: Sep 16 2008 | By: oltukaiconservancy

New Sightings from Ol Tukai!

In the last few weeks many reports have come into the Ol Tukai Conservancy office from eye witness accounts and game scout accounts of Leopard, Cheetah and Hyena sightings within the Conservancy. This is great news to the team at Ol Tukai because sightings of leopards and cheetahs have been exceptionally rare here over the last several years.

Just last night, September 15th, another report was received from Sidan Lodge staff of a leopard strolling around the area. For those who don’t know, Sidan Tented Lodge is our newly constructed eco safari camp nestled in the heart of the Ol Tukai Conservancy.

At around 8:30 p.m. local time, the Ol Tukai game scouts and myself, looking through night vision goggles from the safety of one of the Sidan lodge tents, suddenly spotted the leopard casually meandering through the middle of camp. After a short time, the leopard went on his way, undisturbed by our presence.

In addition to sightings such as that of last night, there have been accounts of many other species of wildlife in the area. Within the immediate vicinity of Sidan Lodge, there are daily sightings of Thompson Gazelle, Giraffe, Reed Buck and other small species of antelope. Avian species found in camp include Ostrich, Yellow neck spur foul, Secretary birds, Kory Bustards, Lilac-Breasted Rollers and many others.

The frequency and diversity of recent wildlife sightings have given us hope that the construction of the lodge appears to have had little to no effect on the eco-system in and around the campsite and Conservancy at large. Needless to say, life is thriving in Ol Tukai!

More updates to come soon…

Thanks from the Ol Tukai Team.

-Patrick Fleming