Oltukai Conservancy

Category: elephants, general wildlife | Date: Apr 16 2008 | By: admin

An African elephant(Loxodonta Africana) is the largest of all land mammals and is remarkable not only for its size, colour, but also for its tusks, ears, trunk, intelligence and herd Loyalty. Their size is up to 11 feet tall, 7, 000 to 13, 200 pounds in weight.

Their life span range from 60- 70 years( approximately the same as humans). The habitat is in the dense forest to open plains, so that, they are available along the Tarangire - Manyara ecosystem( Ol Tukai). In the last centuries, elephants have been in danger of extinction. Today their numbers are increasing, but poaching and the conversion of wild lands to short-term uses are also rising. The Conservancy has trained local Game scouts/Anti- poaching teams to protect elephants from illegal hunting/poaching. The Conservancy anti-poaching teams are monitoring current elephant distribution, movements and overall land use to safeguard elephant habitat.
Thank you very much for your kindness.
Boniface Ngimojino

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Category: Wildebeest, general wildlife, predators | Date: Mar 25 2008 | By: admin

Hallo All!

Just received the latest report from the game scouts at Ol Tukai. For the first time in years we have wildebeest breeding again in Ol Tukai. This is a wonderful development and really bodes well for our effort. The scouts got a photo which shows the young wildebeest, its not the clearest image but the animals are there!

We also have more and more predation within the conservancy…now on wildlife as opposed to livestock…which is a great relief and another demonstration of how the land set aside for wildlife is recovering well.

Also we had a lovely herd of Elephants in Ol Tukai last month. They were very nervous and stuck to good cover but the scouts managed to get a decent photo of them…

Thanks again for all the support!

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