At the end of last month the Ecological RAs and the carnivore RAs continued our work to expand monitoring beyond the core conservation areas, this is the a report from ecological Resource Assessor Joel Sumare
On the 21st March 2017 both ecological and carnivore teams having prepared at Lale’enok Resource Centre, set off to Olosean which is within Shompole east location, Oloika sub location, to survey the area after reports of a lion that has been seen several times in that area.
We arrived at the area by 11:00 o’clock and our first stop was Olosean pre-school. The community had prior information that we were coming so they welcomed us with a lot of happiness and lead us to the site where we camped. After we set up our camp, one the elder lead us to last site where lion tracks had been seen. Here we took photos and GPS coordinates, noting down the information.
On the following day we had a joint patrol with ecological monitoring team and carnivore teams, were we followed for few kilometers the direction of the lion tracks. We passed several bomas on the way and collected information for our boma mapping work. At this time the community mentioned that the biggest problem was a leopard that has been killing their shoats very day and they asked for help if possible from KWS.
We completed the job following this and had successfully mapped 30 bomas and recorded the incidences of human wildlife interactions.
Lale'enok Resource Centre 