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Award 12-11-2017
Nairobi, 12-11-2017 Here below are the details of the prestigious international Award Honoris Causa Gambrinus Mazzotti that Kuki Gallmann was given unanimously on the occasion of the XXXV edition of the Award in her native Italy. Below a short translated version of the original longer motivation -from Italian- and a synthesis of the translation of […]
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Ivory Petition 27-10-2017
Dear friends, The biggest ivory bust in history just happened in Hong Kong. 1000 elephants were slaughtered for one shipment(!), only to end up as little trinkets on people’s coffee tables! Hong Kong is like Ivory Island — the industry is booming there. As long as it’s legal, more and more beautiful elephants will be […]
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Drought 23-10-2017
Nairobi, 23 October 2017 Subject: Drought Dust Sun Hunger On the occasion of the anniversary of the sixth month since I was shot (here below I remember: It seems this update -that is now retrospective- was left unsent in the aftermath of the incident at Ol Ari Nyiro on 23 April 2017. In February 2017 […]
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Diwali 20-10-2017
Nairobi, 20 October 2017 Diwali or Deepavali is the Hindu Festival of Lights Celebrated in Kenya in the Autumn – with fireworks, lights, gifts, special sweets, and festivities. It is tonight. In this night – now in a Nairobi of skyscrapers and helicopters incessantly crisscrossing the sky, above the treetops of my forest garden still […]
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Buffalo Rescue 11-10-2017
11th October 2017, The Successful Rescue of the Buffalo Bull A happy ending report: In the morning light they heard the splash, above the sound of the breeze and the dawn birds: The Kenya Wildlife Services Unit under command of Corporal Molu Arero promptly went to check: and there he was – the large bull, […]
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GPIW 8-10-2017
5/10 October 2017, Marks the 15th Anniversary of The Global Peace Initiative of Women ( GPIW) that was born in October 2002, when a group of women from around the world belonging to all the world religions and traditional faiths met at the Palais de Nations in Geneva at the eve of the War in Iraq, to […]
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Drought 12-3-2017
Dear Friends, Kenya President HE Uhuru Kenyatta in February 2017 declared the devastating Drought in Kenya a National Disaster. We had already began distribution of relief food to our immediate neighbours at 3 stations. Prices of basic commodities such as Maize have on meantime escalated. We had to order one week ago 10 bags of […]
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KBA 15-2-2017
Dear Friends, I am extremely proud to share that the process of uploading the accreditation to IBA/KBA on the official Birdlife International website had been completed at last – the accreditation was confirmed in 2014: The Gallmann Memorial Foundation in Ol Ari Nyiro on Kenya Eastern Rift Valley Laikipia Plateau due to sustained protection of […]
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WED 5-6-2016
5th June 2016 Dear Friends! The tortoise is slow and this update is late*.. (but not late to celebrate- World Environment Day.) With rains, and grass green all life shone again. Blooms opened on old branches encrusted with lichen, nests filled with eggs, sky with wings, and a thousands frogs serenaded the new moon from […]
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Sandalwood 16-1-2016
Dear friends of the environment, REF: illegal traffic/ Sandalwood Dear all, Sandalwood Acting on an intelligence tip and after months of stalking – a team composed by KWS, AP and Wildlife Rangers from Laikipia Nature Conservancy, managed to impound possibly one of the largest sandalwood hauls ever- estimated in excess of 14 tons. One suspect […]
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