Armed with deadly poison and specialized arrows, four poachers entered the Enduimet Wildlife Management Area (EWMA) on January 15. They came for elephants and ivory. So sure of their tactics, the gang didn’t even bother to bring bows or guns. The poison, according to one source who later came forward to Honeyguide, could kill an
We’ve all heard the abhorred numbers. Up to 10,000 elephants poached for their ivory per year in Tanzania. Some 66% of the pachyderm population in the Selous Game Reserve decimated in the past 4 years. One elephant killed every 15 minutes. Here is one statistic that hasn’t been reported: zero. That’s the number of elephants
Take a condom, fill it with extra spicy chili powder, and cap it all off with a modified decibel-shattering firecracker. What do you have? The start of a wild Friday night? Allow Honeyguide to introduce you to the Chili Bomb, our own invention and the first line of defense against wayward elephants who invade farms
Rocky and Jerry strike again! Last month, Honeyguide’s Dog Unit supported rangers from the Enduimet Wildlife Management Area, Big Life Foundation, and the Kenya Wildlife Service in a joint operation that led to the arrest of a notorious elephant poacher in Kenya. Read the full dramatic account from Big Life Foundation. On November 18, Big
Honeyguide Foundation congratulates our very own, Lomayani Komolo Simel, for graduating from the Mweka College for African Wildlife Management on November 2. “I feel extremely grateful,” said Komolo, who graduated with a Diploma in Wildlife Management. “Many people and organisations supported my education, and I am happy to already be a part of Honeyguide.” In
Over late September and early October, Honeyguide Foundation welcomed an American security specialist to train rangers in the Enduimet WMA, Burunge WMA, and in Manyara Ranch. With support provided by a private donor, the specialist spent 16 days leading the capacity-building exercises for some 30 rangers. “We learned so much,” said Kateto Kashe, a Honeyguide