Another week, another workshop. Now in Malindi, Kenya to run this.

We have a nascent Tana River Conservation Alliance!! Incredibly exciting for arguably Kenya’s more important conservation landscape #tana

Tanzania does NOT have 17,000 lions. It is sad that TAWIRI lets this figure be used publicly. It was allegedly based on an inappropriate extrapolation from 2 (of 13) sub-populations. The real estimate based on published data is approximately 6,600 to 8,200.

Happy Mnemban weekend #nofilter

This is Bawe Island off Stone Town, Zanzibar. Until recently it was covered in natural coral rag vegetation…Genuine question. Is this sustainable development or profit at all costs?

Meth-addict fish, aggro starlings, caffeinated minnows: animals radically changed by human drugs Addiction, anxiety and sex reversal have been reported in species by researchers as a range of substances contaminates ecosystems theguardian.com/environment/ar…

The Skelligs, southwest Ireland. #skelligs #eire

Always best to be absolutely clear…

Well done William Shatner. Live long and prosper. Stop open net salmon farms. instagram.com/reel/C8cuBt9Ph…

Happy #Worldcamelday

So ⁦Elon Musk⁩ what say you? news.mongabay.com/2024/06/elon-m…

Get in there, Lewis! #F1 🐐

Happy #worldsnakeday ! Excited to be plotting with ⁦Gurveena Ghataure⁩ and ⁦Rikki Gumbs⁩ at ⁦⁦ZSL⁩ towards an East African Viper program. Watch this space!

“China is Kenya’s largest bilateral lender with more than $6 billion in loans, including $1.2 billion due by 2025. Kenya has faced huge protests over a proposed tax increase and austerity, China repeatedly refused to offer any leniency on its debt.” adf-magazine.com/2024/07/china-…

To ⁦Tanzania Forest Services Agency⁩ is a music festival in a small forest reserve that is home to endangered and endemic nocturnal mammals really a good idea??

The beautiful and endangered Golden Monkey (Cercopithecus kandti) endemic to the Virungas in Rwanda.

This makes good sense. Whaling no longer a threat and many species increasing so time to scrap the IWC and focus on pollution and ship strikes. theguardian.com/environment/ar…

Maasai sunset, Manyara conservancy.

An alarming graphic illustrates global vertebrate habitat loss. #Tanzania and #Ethiopia do not fair well….