Stop Wildlife Poisoning

Dear readers, Time for me to pack up and get to Nairobi for proper medical check up and some good rest. Mwea is pleasant countryside, Mt. Kenya towers in the sky prominently especially in the mornings and evenings for anyone looking around for something such as myself. A vast stretch too and the sun comes [...]

Dear readers, Not quite on my feet to survey beyond my window which does not even give me the rice scheme’s view but I have something to share. EPA ruled hazardous the use of carbofuran even when used correctly. It has an antidote in case of poisoning. I think it is the most unused antidote [...]

I wish to thank our dear readers for your comments and donations hitherto. I am also very sorry for going quiet for almost one week. I assumed that I was fatigued when I came from Bunyala and would handle just alright going to Mwea but I was wrong. just after getting the birds’ test results [...]

Hi readers, We have results for carbofurn testing from the Government Chemist of the Birds collected from Bunyala in May. 5 out of 6 samples tested positive for carbofuran poisoning. The samples were collected from Bunyala on the 04/05/2008 and transported frozen overnight to Nairobi. In Nairobi, they coninued to be frozen at the nearest [...]

The post Elephants Poisoned With Furadan in Tanzania just makes sense with Kenyan’s providing a vivid Furadan poisoning illustration yet again. The photograph above shows cabbages picked on elephant trails in a place in Kenya called Mweiga in the neighbourhood of Abardares National Park. A cavity is bored by the farmer(s) into the vegetables and [...]

Dear friends I have just come back from the Masai Mara where a lion was poisoned on 25th May. The Masai told me that it is not unusual for lions to be poisoned,  indeed they said 5 had been poisoned just 2 months ago!I went to a local agrovet store in Narok town to ask [...]

Hi. I just checked my data so far of birds poisoned from one site (Bunyala) and realized that I have recorded 30 species from 12 different families as victims of Furadan poisoning during the 5 months that I have been collecting data in Bunyala. The number is higher given that I do not have photos [...]

The rains finally came consistent and heavy from around mid May for 1 week. Bounty seemed the best description of anything dependant on the rains. Of relevance to my project, All African open-billed Storks seemed to have come to congregate in Bunyala. My assistant likened the scene to that of flamingoes. He says he does [...]

An angel has set up a petition on Care2 to help get carbofuran banned in Kenya. It includes a letter to the Minister for Tourism in Kenya.  The petition currently has over 14,000 signatures!     Thank you who ever you are who is helping us silently from out there. We continue to work hard [...]

Just when I commenced on this month’s survey, I wrote of continued poisoning in Bunyala just when there should not be, given the withdfrawal of Furadan supply by FMC, the wildlife poisoning critisism associated with Furadan use and the seemingly reduction of furadan use hence availability due to proposed other crop growing in the Bunyala [...]