Oltukai Conservancy

Category: Uncategorized, education, flamingos, general wildlife | Date: Oct 21 2008 | By: oltukaiconservancy

     Nearly all of Lake Manyara’s 1.5 million Greater and Lesser Flamingos have migrated to Lake Natron and other Soda lakes in Northern Tanzania and Southern Kenya for the annual Breeding season. Both Lake Manyara and Natron are “Soda” lakes located in Northern Tanzania.

   The Flamingos use the lakes abundant algae Blooms as a source of food. Throughout December and May, the Flamingos return from the Northern lakes with their young and stay in Lake Manyara until Sep-Oct when they migrate North again. At the moment Lake Manyara is in the heart of the dry season with water levels low and Alkaline levels High.

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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

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Category: Uncategorized, education, poaching | Date: Sep 16 2008 | By: oltukaiconservancy

   The Ol Tukai Anti-Poaching team needs desperate Help from Donors! In the last few weeks Cash for The Team has been particulary low and we need help paying for several things out at The Ol Tukai Conservancy.

   First, the Petrol for our Anti-Poaching 109 Land Rover has been all but used up and current petrol prices in Tanzania have effected our overall Budget per month for the conservancy. Also we are in need of money to help pay for a new clutch and a basic tune up from a professional Mechanic for the old Landy.

  Maintaining our vehicle is not the only trouble facing the Team at the moment. The conservancy needs help paying for our Anti poaching Salaries. Several Members of our team have needed help with medical expenses in the last few weeks, ailing from problems such as malaria to team members with very sick children, adding to an already heavy burden placed financially on the Conservancy and the families of the Anti-Poaching Team.

   Donations would be greatly appreciated by the Anti-poaching Team and The Ol Tukai Conservancy. Without your help, the team must cover a Huge area of over 60,000 Acres On foot, giving them a huge disadvantage to our Anti-Poaching Efforts. Now is the high season at Ol Tukai for Poaching! Thank you for any help you can provide.

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Category: Uncategorized, education | Date: Jul 29 2008 | By: oltukaiconservancy

An Ol Tukai team of three colleagues left for Nairobi for two days to attend a training workshop that equipped them with knowledge on how to utilize the wildlife direct website and how to use the site to improve the Ol Tukai conservancy. They not only acquired necessary skills through the training, but also gained experience, exchanged ideas, adapted new formats, and established partnership.  The team, from Ol tukai conservancy, which comprises of Boniface, Parsanga and Patrick, came to learn the way forward so as to improve and facilitate the Conservancy, as well as connect it with others through the site.  We (the team) promise to be dedicated on how to search, link and manage all the operations of the conservancy website.

Lastly, the team wishes to give thanks to Wildlife Direct representatives and Dr. Richard Leakey, to Masumi for dedicating her time and knowledge, and to her colleagues for their kindness to allocate their valuable time and the resources as well.

  Thanks for your cooperation.

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Category: Uncategorized, education | Date: Apr 25 2008 | By: admin

This week the primary school children of Ol Tukai planted over 100 indigenous trees! The trees are being planted in the earth moved by a large Chinese/Tanzania Govt. dam buidling project that left large tracts of land denuded!

We are looking forward to continued planting!

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Category: education | Date: Feb 20 2008 | By: admin

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