Showing posts with label Lewa Wildlife Conservancy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lewa Wildlife Conservancy. Show all posts

16 September 2015

Kenya: Street View now lets you explore the Samburu National Reserve!

Google has - in partnership with Save the Elephants and with the support of the Samburu County Government - released Street View imagery of the Samburu National Reserve, Lewa Wildlife Conservancy and the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust. Enjoy!

Hardwood family of elephants, Samburu National Reserve (Kenya)



Elephants and zebras graze in the open plains of the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy (Kenya)



Orphaned elephants play in the mud at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Nairobi (Kenya)

28 June 2013

Kenya: Lewa Wildlife Conservancy & Ngare Ndare Forest Reserve now part of World Heritage Site "Mount Kenya National Park"

The World Heritage Committee approved during its 37th Committee Session in Cambodia (16 June - 27 June 2013) to inscribe the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy and the Ngare Ndare Forest Reserve as extensions of the Mount Kenya National Park, which got declared a World Heritage Site in 1997. The area added to the World Heritage Site lies within the traditional migrating route of the African elephant population of the Mount Kenya National Park and consists of a core of nearly 20,000 hectares as well as a buffer zone of almost 70,000 ha.