We have just heard from a reliable source that at least 35 vultures, one lion and a few hyeanas were poisoned bye the Olololaimutiak gate in the Masai Mara last week.
We are in the process of finding out if this is Furadan. It certainly sounds like Furadan from reports so far. Evidence will be collected and hopefully the government will conduct a full investigation to find out what happened, and to charge the offenders.
This week alone we have submitted four reports of wildlife poisoning that have occurred in the last 6 weeks or so, to the Pest Products Control Board in Nairobi. They are responsible for regulating the use of pesticides in Kenya and. Although we have not yet heard back from them, we are confident that they will conduct investigations and get back to us.
All suspected wildlife poisoning incidents that involve Furadan are also being forwarded to FMC who are working closely with the government regulators in Kenya.
One very positive outcome of this blog has been the general raising of awareness that there is somewhere to report the poisoning of wildlife in Kenya. To be more effective we need to reach other corners of Kenya and this takes time and money. Please share this information with your friends and networks and help us raise adequate funding to extend our work and reach more people and places where wildlife is silently dying.
One of our goals is to produce educational materials to share with the communties that are poisoning wildlife out of ignorance. Any help that you can provide towards this work would be greatly appreciated.
Post Script
After posting this article I sent word out on twitter to find out if it was true and I got this response from Kimojino who tweets as @maratriangle “@paulakahumbu It’s true, over on other side of Mara. A revenge killing after the cows were killed by lions, while grazing IN the reserve.”
We’re trying to find out if it was Furadan
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2 Comments
A revenge killing? for killing a cow illegally grazing? I could rant on that for a _while_. What also worries me is that these are the poisonings we hear about … there are undoubtedly more that do undetected, don’t you think?
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so the company’s claim of not selling such poison to kenya and other african countries where lions still exist is a lie? each poisoning from this chemical should be reported to this company and demand this company to pay up both to the livestock owners and naturally to the loss of life of lions and other predators. all predators are innocent because they do what they must to survive and secondly they are animals ( they do not know better ).
if the kenyan government is serious of banning such poison, it should confiscate all furadan and replaces it with other pesticides with extreme foul odor and taste.
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