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Hello, about me.... hmmmm. I love all creatures great and small and enjoy just about every type of music made. Combining Music and Animals is one of my favorite pastimes.

My other love is children.... they are gifts and our future.

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If you would like to find out more about the lion prides and coalitions in the area, please visit the Lion Database. We have been gathering information on some of them for the last two years. Many, many hours, days, months etc. has gone into researching all the various sites' sighting reports, newsletters as well as receiving help from people in the area that share their knowledge and help fill in the gaps. It's kind of like a giant jigsaw puzzle to trace the prides back in time in an effort to better understand their lives.

Hope you enjoy them and please visit the resource sites cited within the histories. Check back periodically to see if more mysteries unfold or to see the updates on them.

http://wildearth.ning.com/page/lion-database

Hope to add more in the future but it takes a very long time trying to track them as it seems almost every reserve has a different name for each pride, coalition or male. Until now, there was very little if any cross referencing of the prides and coalitions names. We have tried to share this so maybe you too can help in tracking them. :)
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At 8:42pm on November 10, 2009, Hannah McCrunchy said…
hello =] i finally found your page... i hope you got my message
At 4:47pm on August 10, 2009, Peter said…
Hi Aquila,

I hope you are doing well. Just wanted to may be add some more confusion on current lion dynamics and numbers.

Today I found some information on the Elephant Plains Rangers Diary for July. There it is mentioned, that they have seen the Sandy Patch Female with FOUR healthy cubs, as well as the 2 Styx females (the ones separated from the bulk of the pride) with FOUR cubs (instead of the 2 we are knowing about). As always, the lion dynamics are exciting on one hand and somewhat confusing on the other with regards to numbers.
Best regards from Germany
Peter
At 12:02pm on July 26, 2009, Peter said…
Hi Aquila,

to add on my previous post, here is the related information I found on the Simbambili Rangers Diary 19th-22nd of July:

Lion sightings have also been great this week, with the first sighting for some time of the Sandy Patch lioness and her 3 cubs, she frequents the area around Djuma but we often see her tracks in and out of our traversing area, so we were very lucky when see was seen on drive with her cubs. They are 2 females and a male, we can just only hope that she can raise them to adulthood and then we may see the beginnings of a new pride in the north of our area.

Best regards

Peter
At 10:49am on July 26, 2009, Peter said…
Hi Aquila,

it is pretty quiet on the lion discussion thread over the last couple of weeks, although there seems to be a lot of lion activity around Djuma.
Actually I am getting a bit confused on the reports of the Sandy Patch Female and her cubs. I think one of the recent reports (last week) indicated that she is around Vuyatela with all 3 cubs. In the video highlights of the 25th pm drive we can see her with only 2 cubs and Patrick telling us, that she has lost one cub already some time ago. Do you know what the story and the status is?

Thanks and best regards

Peter
At 10:01am on July 20, 2009, SharonAustria said…
Update on Sandy Patch, Colleen...seekpointed in the 09:11 slot :>))
At 9:27am on July 16, 2009, SharonAustria said…
Hi Colleen! Have seekpointed 2 new updates on AM Drive for you and Karen re: Styx & Kuhumas --- both great news! :>))
At 9:46am on July 9, 2009, SharonAustria said…
Hi Colleen!
In case you might have missed it, I've seekpointed updates and info on 3 n e w Lions in the area for you and Karen from the AM drive today. It runs from the seekpoint all the way to the very, very end of the 08:00 time slot.
Sharon
At 8:58pm on July 7, 2009, SharonAustria said…
You are so welcome!!
At 8:28pm on July 7, 2009, SharonAustria said…
Hi Colleen! In case you didn't catch it on the AM Drive today, Rex sent you extra good news and an Update on Sandy Patch! It's seekpointed for you in the 07:59 slot.
At 10:48am on June 27, 2009, Peter said…
Hi Aqulia,

I just found this information on the Ulusaba Bush Telegraph:

Other great sightings included the Othawa pride and one Mapogo having killed an adult giraffe, which they fed on for more than a week. The young Sand River male also joined them at the kill, but as those of you who saw him would remember, he was in a really poor state, and could hardly muster the energy to feed, and unfortunately was found lying dead next to the carcass.

So very sad news while not unexpected, the young Sand River Male has passed away ... the last one of the pride! This happened sometime within the last 2 weeks.

Positive is the information in the same time frame the sighting of the Eyerfield Pride, all of them (7 sub adults + Solo + 3 females + Rollercoaster Male) have been spotted by the Ulusaba Rangers alive and doing well.

Regards

Peter
 
 

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We finally managed to release our two Honey Badgers at Kudu Game Ranch. Until release they had been cared for by our friends at the Moholoholo Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre for over two months. This gave us time to arrange for the requisite permits and hopefully a sufficient gap to allow the badgers homing instincts to diminish. The delay also allowed us time to implant a radio tracker in one badger, such that we could monitor his progress via telemetry.
The second badger was sedated and given a VHF collar, not an easy task I can tell you. Catching and sedating him took four of us and resulted in one bitten shin and one badly chewed finger amongst the capture team. To be honest, our efforts were all in vain because no sooner had he recovered from sedation, than he managed to pull the collar off. We had expected him to shed the collar within a few days, and after we'd established his home range, but he was having none of it; and left the collar in the bottom of his transport cage. That leaves us with one badger to track, which is being monitored by volunteers from Kudu Game Ranch. Last night he wandered off the property and headed towards Lydenburg. Presumably to create havoc there. We'll do our best to follow him where ever he goes, but it won't now be easy as he's traversing a number of properties. This is new territory for us all, as we simply do not have data on Badger behaviour in these area's. What we do know is that badgers have a large home range and can trek for 25kms or more in one session. We just hope he takes an about turn and heads back to Kudu Ranch soon.
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UK tour raises some great questions


Some great questions have been raised by University students during my recent lecture tour in the UK, which have focused our thoughts on the direction of the ILP for the next years. Sure, we’re growing rapidly but it’s important to ensure that we focus on our core aims first and foremost. The object of our research is to gather data on the density and behaviour of leopards (and other carnivores) outside of formally protected areas. And why? Well it is in these areas (the largest land mass of South Africa) that leopards are in conflict with humans and in these areas where they are the last of the big five remaining truly wild.
So how can we conserve the dwindling leopard population. As said, first we need data, but also we need to develop wildlife management methods and techniques. Within this we need to become more than a pure research project and tackle some of the other issues. Education is undoubtedly a major factor. We need to get the message across in the right way. But we also need to develop and employ pragmatic management solutions. We will need a holding facility to temporarily detain problem animals, sufficient to give us time to ensure that any relocation does not compromise the genetic dynamics of an area and importantly that we do not create a problem in that area. Whether that be with local livestock, people, or other leopards.
All of this will mean we need more staff. Dedicated people who have a passion for wildlife conservation. We’ll also need more funding. But here is where we can offer something a little different. We want to create an ILP membership scheme (say$8 annual fee). However rather then just ask for a membership fee, in return we want to offer something more than a badge or membership card. Membership will then entitle folks to a 10% discount off an African Conservation Safari. As with everything we do, we look to our friends to give us their input and feedback, so if you have any thoughts on this concept then I'd love to hear from you.
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