Tuesday, November 7, 2023
Mamerle The Magnificent Cowtusker
Mamerle, is a Magnificent Cowtusker who lives in the Greater Kruger Wilderness.
Mamerle has exceptional Tusks.
Mamerle is a cowtusker who is blessed now with Four Twins.
Mamerle is a rarity in the raw African Wilderness.
Friday, May 24, 2019
Tim, The Iconic Tusker From Amboseli NP Is Now 50 Years Old
Birthdays mean nothing to elephants, but they mean a huge amount to
those of us who are dedicated to protecting the species. Each year of
life is another year of success, and this year marks a big milestone for
one big elephant.
Tim, one of Amboseli’s largest and best-known elephants, is 50.
It’s remarkable that Tim has gotten to this age, given that each day he faces just about every threat possible to his species.
Sadly, this has been the case from early on. Within his first few years of life he lost three of his relatives to suspected poaching incidents, followed by his mother Trista, who was speared to death by poachers when he was only 8.
He would continue to lose more family members as time passed, including his sister Tallulah, speared in 2003.
Tim has since come to represent all of the different values, positive and negative, that humans place on an elephant’s life. To poachers he is a target, to farmers he is a costly nuisance, to tourists he is a marvel, and to conservationists he is a symbol of hope that our efforts are working.
And he has certainly had some of his own bumps on the way to 50. In the last five years, he has been speared twice by angry farmers during his night-time raids onto farmlands.
Most recently, in November of last year, Big Life worked with Kenya Wildlife Service and Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in a monumental life-saving effort to rescue Tim after he got stuck in a mud-pit deep in farmlands.
We have no doubt that Tim will continue to keep us busy in future, but for now we are very happy to hear that he has come into musth, a hormonal state that requires a healthy body condition and is usually associated with mating.
Given that he hasn’t come into musth for the past two years, this is a good sign that he has recovered from all of his recent ordeals.
It also means that he will be spending his time looking for females rather than keeping Big Life’s rangers busy in the farms at night, and with any luck will be passing on those incredible genes to the tuskers of the future!
Credits : Big Life Foundation
Tim, one of Amboseli’s largest and best-known elephants, is 50.
It’s remarkable that Tim has gotten to this age, given that each day he faces just about every threat possible to his species.
Sadly, this has been the case from early on. Within his first few years of life he lost three of his relatives to suspected poaching incidents, followed by his mother Trista, who was speared to death by poachers when he was only 8.
He would continue to lose more family members as time passed, including his sister Tallulah, speared in 2003.
Tim has since come to represent all of the different values, positive and negative, that humans place on an elephant’s life. To poachers he is a target, to farmers he is a costly nuisance, to tourists he is a marvel, and to conservationists he is a symbol of hope that our efforts are working.
And he has certainly had some of his own bumps on the way to 50. In the last five years, he has been speared twice by angry farmers during his night-time raids onto farmlands.
Most recently, in November of last year, Big Life worked with Kenya Wildlife Service and Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in a monumental life-saving effort to rescue Tim after he got stuck in a mud-pit deep in farmlands.
We have no doubt that Tim will continue to keep us busy in future, but for now we are very happy to hear that he has come into musth, a hormonal state that requires a healthy body condition and is usually associated with mating.
Given that he hasn’t come into musth for the past two years, this is a good sign that he has recovered from all of his recent ordeals.
It also means that he will be spending his time looking for females rather than keeping Big Life’s rangers busy in the farms at night, and with any luck will be passing on those incredible genes to the tuskers of the future!
Credits : Big Life Foundation
Thursday, May 23, 2019
Elephant Matriarchs and Awesome and Amazing Bachelor Bulls On The Sure Path to Death
Yes, The Elephants Of Botswana will be history when the Trophy Hunters come to Botswana in their hordes and start killing these Precious Pachyderms for their Ivory.
The Iconic and Precious Matriarchs all over Botswana are in "Grave Danger" all because the spineless and greedy Botswana Govt has sold its soul to Trophy Hunters.
Where will this all end ?? Rather when will it all end ??
The Whole Of Botswana will resemble The Deep Tropical Rain Forests of Central Africa which are being emptied rapidly of its rare "Forest Elephants'".
Chobe National Park and Moremi Game Reserve will be littered with the carcasses of Legally Poached Elephants.
Matriarchs usually pass on their legacy to the next generation. But, If they are killed in large numbers what legacy can they pass on ??
I fear greatly for these Elephants who mean everything to me despite the fact that I live in India.
The Iconic and Precious Matriarchs all over Botswana are in "Grave Danger" all because the spineless and greedy Botswana Govt has sold its soul to Trophy Hunters.
Where will this all end ?? Rather when will it all end ??
The Whole Of Botswana will resemble The Deep Tropical Rain Forests of Central Africa which are being emptied rapidly of its rare "Forest Elephants'".
Chobe National Park and Moremi Game Reserve will be littered with the carcasses of Legally Poached Elephants.
Matriarchs usually pass on their legacy to the next generation. But, If they are killed in large numbers what legacy can they pass on ??
I fear greatly for these Elephants who mean everything to me despite the fact that I live in India.
Thursday, May 2, 2019
FOREST ELEPHANTS OF THE CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC ARE IN GRAVE DANGER
In Africa, there are two kinds of elephants: savanna and forest elephants. The species diverged somewhere between two and six million years ago, with the better-known savanna elephants spreading over the plains and open woodlands of Eastern, Southern, and Western Africa while forest elephants stayed behind in the dense forests at the center of the continent.
Although the two occasionally hybridize, they are widely viewed as separate species. Forest elephants are smaller, with smaller and straighter tusks. The size of their tusks, however, has not protected them from rampant poaching, because the tusks have a distinctive hue, sometimes known as “pink ivory,” that has made them particularly valuable.
Something about the nobility of forest elephants regularly raises concern for their extinction. The tropical forests of the Congo Basin, once considered impenetrable, are now yielding to logging roads, mines, and even palm-oil plantations. In 2013, a widely respected study by Fiona Maisels, of the Wildlife Conservation Society, found that, between 2002 and 2011, the population of forest elephants had declined by sixty-two per cent. Perhaps as few as eighty thousand remain.
The story of these declining numbers is also a story of habitat destruction. Where forest elephants exist in an undisturbed state, they build networks of trails through the deep forest. These trails connect mineral deposits, fruit groves, and other essentials of forest-elephant life. In Central Africa, there are dozens of fruit trees whose seeds are too large to pass through the guts of any other animal and for which forest elephants have evolved as the sole dispersers. These trees line the forest-elephant paths. Where elephant populations are disturbed, the paths disappear.
Read The Whole Article Here :
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-forest-elephants-of-the-central-african-republic-are-in-peril
Although the two occasionally hybridize, they are widely viewed as separate species. Forest elephants are smaller, with smaller and straighter tusks. The size of their tusks, however, has not protected them from rampant poaching, because the tusks have a distinctive hue, sometimes known as “pink ivory,” that has made them particularly valuable.
Something about the nobility of forest elephants regularly raises concern for their extinction. The tropical forests of the Congo Basin, once considered impenetrable, are now yielding to logging roads, mines, and even palm-oil plantations. In 2013, a widely respected study by Fiona Maisels, of the Wildlife Conservation Society, found that, between 2002 and 2011, the population of forest elephants had declined by sixty-two per cent. Perhaps as few as eighty thousand remain.
The story of these declining numbers is also a story of habitat destruction. Where forest elephants exist in an undisturbed state, they build networks of trails through the deep forest. These trails connect mineral deposits, fruit groves, and other essentials of forest-elephant life. In Central Africa, there are dozens of fruit trees whose seeds are too large to pass through the guts of any other animal and for which forest elephants have evolved as the sole dispersers. These trees line the forest-elephant paths. Where elephant populations are disturbed, the paths disappear.
Read The Whole Article Here :
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-forest-elephants-of-the-central-african-republic-are-in-peril
Monday, November 12, 2018
Wild African Elephants at Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe
So Cool. What a Sight To See.
Wild African Elephants in Hwange NP in Zim drinking water from a pool right under the nose of Wildlife Tourists.
Wildlife Viewing does not get any better than this.
Hwange NP in Zimbabwe is Ethereal. There are more Pachyderms there at any given point of time than Tourists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WidH2GF0Zic
Wild African Elephants in Hwange NP in Zim drinking water from a pool right under the nose of Wildlife Tourists.
Wildlife Viewing does not get any better than this.
Hwange NP in Zimbabwe is Ethereal. There are more Pachyderms there at any given point of time than Tourists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WidH2GF0Zic
Sunday, November 11, 2018
Elephants At The Bar In Zambia
This is too cute for words. This is a Must watch IMHO.
Have You ever heard of Wild African Elephants at a Bar in Zambia ostensibly for a Swig and some Cool Food.
Check this out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iokDE0AwP4k
Have You ever heard of Wild African Elephants at a Bar in Zambia ostensibly for a Swig and some Cool Food.
Check this out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iokDE0AwP4k
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