Blog posts for Kenya
Biodiversity Kenya: Our time so far…
We are now on our 5th day of the Conservation and Biodiversity field trip to Kenya and we have been so busy having the time of our lives that we haven’t had a chance to update our blog posts! Here is a brief summary of what we have been doing so far. We arrived in…
ms882 January 29th, 2018 Kenya BiodiversityKenya, Bioscience, fieldcoursefortnight, fieldkenya, kenya
Policy on the move: Rift Valley to Lake Nakuru
Policy on the move: Rift Valley to Lake Nakuru After saying our farewells to Oscar’s Camp, we set off through the bustling metropolis of Nairobi towards our next destination: Lake Nakuru National Park. Being a Sunday, the residents of the city were all out in the streets looking immaculate in their finest dress. The air…
jk479 January 17th, 2018 Kenya conservation, field course fortnight, field kenya, policy, university of exeter
Meet the Maasai
Conservation Science & Policy: Day two – Maasai pastoralists and lions The morning started with a walking safari in the conservancy land. As we left the campsite, the sky was tinted in the red shades of the dawn. It was unbelievable. Wherever we looked we could see wildlife; tracks on the ground below us, animals…
jk479 January 7th, 2018 Kenya Bioscience, conservation, Field Course, fieldkenya, Focus group, kenya, Maasai, Safari, social science, university of exeter
Policy team go wild: Our first day in Kenya
The Conservation Science and Policy team waved goodbye to the Biodiversity team at Nairobi airport ad rolled through the warm African night to our first destination: Kiboko Sanctuary or Oscar’s Camp, near Nairobi National Park – Kenya’s first national park, created in 1946. If our arrival was anything to go by, this is going to…
jk479 January 6th, 2018 Kenya Bioscience, conservancy, conservation, Field Course, Field Course Fornight, kenya, leopard, Safari, university, university of exeter
Kenya 2018: The adventures begin
4th January 2018 It’s only been a matter of months since we started studying for our various masters degrees, but it feels like Kenya has been a long time coming. We spent 3 months feasting on knowledge, feeding our brains with information on our chosen focus, plus statistics – oh the statistics! We then spent 3…
jk479 January 4th, 2018 Kenya Behavioural Ecology, Biodiversity, Biosience, conservation, Field Course, field course fortnight, kenya, MSc, university of exeter