As Many Black as White Rhinos!On the 16th of July we unfortunately lost one of our white rhinos in a fight. The rhino in question was a five year old male called Millenium. He was killed by another rhino, the suspect is one of the three dominant bulls in that area. The incident high lights a problem and opportunity that we are starting to face.; Lewa has been very successful in breeding white rhinos and now there are simply too many bulls on the Conservancy. Out of 33 white rhinos there are 20 males,10 females and two calves not yet sexed.

We are looking into the possibility to try and restock Il Ngwesi with some of these surplus males.

We have had yet another black rhino calf born. Mawingo, the mother of Omni, gave birth on the 18th of July. Mother and calf seem to be doing well, but we will keep a close eye on them since Mawingo is almost completely blind and Omni had to be taken away from her because she kept loosing track of him. But we keep our fingers crossed that she will manage better with this new little calf.

The total number of black rhino on Lewa is now 32 (12 males, 17 females and 3 unsexed calves).

This is the first time in the history of Lewa where the number of black rhinos is at the same level as the number of white rhinos.

There has been a huge KWS Elephant-count taking place in the North of Kenya over the past month in which our aircraft was involved. And the good news is that they counted a total of 5300 individuals in the whole Samburu-Laikipia area. Out of that number, 1368 elephants was counted in the Namunyak/Mathews Range area! We like to believe that it is the direct result of Namunyak's hard conservation efforts and improvement of security.

The waterbucks that were moved to Il Ngwesi a couple of weeks ago are doing very well. Only one loss has been recorded to lions. But there are 7-8 individuals seen on a regular basis around the waterhole in front of the Il Ngwesi Lodge.

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