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Aunt accused of siphoning niece's charity funds

Edit Toronto Sun 06 Apr 2016
A Winnipeg woman who helped raised tens of thousands of dollars for her critically ill niece is on trial accused of spending most of the money on herself. Sheryl Matheson, 43, has pleaded not guilty to one count each of theft and fraud. Matheson's niece, Jessica Bondar, died in April 2011 while awaiting a heart transplant. She was 19 ... Bondar remained hospitalized," Crown attorney Mandy Ambose alleged in an opening address Monday....

The Kids Twiga Tally: creating young conservation scientists in Kenya

Edit The Guardian 17 Mar 2016
Paula Kahumbu. Counting giraffes, using the latest image identification software, fires children’s interest in science and wildlife conservation ... In 1984, E.O ... We called the event the Kids Twiga Tally ... Twitter ... WildlifeDirect is developing a system that enables schools nationwide to use parks and wilderness areas as outdoor classrooms for any subject (click here to read about our day out with school children in Amboseli National Park) ... ....

Maasai Mara, Africa’s stunning bush country

Edit The Examiner 10 Mar 2016
Take in the silence of the bush. The call of the wild. The Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya is a home of the “Big 5”. You’ll see lions, elephants, leopards, cheetahs, rhinos, zebras, hippos, giraffes, and more. It’s an unending adventure. See millions of animals cross the Mara River every year. See the predators chase them down or drown them. It’s a sight to behold. There’s no place like Africa ... There is Amboseli, Tsavo, and Mt ... ....

Two Junior Faculty Named 2016 Sloan Fellows (Duke University)

Edit Public Technologies 23 Feb 2016
(Source. Duke University). Durham, NC- Two Duke faculty are among 126 chosen to be this year's Sloan Research Fellows from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation ... Her work pairs a 40-year study of social interactions and life course among the Amboseli baboons of Kenya with the latest genetic analyses ... Original Document....
photo: Creative Commons / Hans Stieglitz
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Science Briefs: Why baby elephants need their grandmas

Edit The Charlotte Observer 21 Feb 2016
Grandmas make difference to baby elephants’ survival. Grandmas play a very important role in the long-term success of an elephant herd, according to research from Scotland’s University of Stirling. Phyllis Lee, a behavioral psychologist there, led a study analyzing data from 834 female elephants in Amboseli National Park, Kenya ... Females support each other and protect and care for calves as a group.” ... unc.edu ....

Grandmas make a huge difference to a baby elephants’ survival (The University of Stirling)

Edit Public Technologies 18 Feb 2016
(Source. The University of Stirling). Grandmas play a very important role in the long-term success of an elephant herd, says Stirling academic. Phyllis Lee, Behavioural Psychologist at the University of Stirling, led a study analysing data from 834 female elephants in Amboseli National Park, Kenya. Researchers have been watching more than 3000 elephants in Amboseli for more than four decades ... Lee added ... Lee added ... Original Document ... (noodl....

Finally, Kenyans can watch their own country's wildlife on TV

Edit The Guardian 03 Feb 2016
Most people that I speak to about the lack of access to wildlife documentaries in Kenya are aghast and astounded – and one person was even reduced to tears – by the fact that American and European children know the names of our lions in the Masai Mara, and our elephants in Amboseli and Samburu, while ours do not ... children to Amboseli National Park)....

How Your Social Life Changes Your Microbiome

Edit The Atlantic 16 Jan 2016
David Moir / Reuters. Social contact can clearly spread disease. That’s why we lean away from snotty hugs, tell sick colleagues to go home, and quarantine people during epidemics ... Most of these are harmless, perhaps even helpful. And they can hop between individuals, too ... But these were snapshots ... Jenny Tung and Elizabeth Archie found similar trends among two groups of wild baboons in Kenya’s Amboseli National Park ... ....

7Nt Kenya Escorted Safari Package for 2 from $5,998

Edit CNET 09 Dec 2015
Great Value Vacations offers a Kenya 7-Night Flight, Hotel, and Safari Escorted Vacation for Two with prices starting at $5,997.98, as seen on Travelzoo ... It includes roundtrip airfare; stays in Nairobi, Amboseli National Park, Lake Naivasha, and Masai Mara Reserve; 19 meals; transportation in a 4x4 safari vehicle with guaranteed window seat; daily escorted safari game drives; and more ... ....

Will The European Commission’s new plan for Sub-Saharan African help Elephants? (IFAW - International Fund ...

Edit Public Technologies 04 Dec 2015
(Source. IFAW - International Fund for Animal Welfare) ... The European Commission has today released a new report with the aim to bridge the poverty-biodiversity nexus in sub-Saharan Africa. This report is the first time that the Commission (or any other donor) has developed such a detailed and comprehensive strategy ... IFAW's landscape work in Amboseli proves this need not be a zero-sum game between humans and elephants ... --SS. distributed by....

IFAW Applauds European Commission commitment to raise 5 billion Euros to fund Study on Sub-Saharan ...

Edit Public Technologies 26 Nov 2015
(Source. IFAW - International Fund for Animal Welfare) ... The event on the launch of this report is organised jointly with the Wildlife Conservation Society and the International Fund for Animal Welfare, groups which contributed to the development of the report. The study 'Larger than elephants ... He went on to say, 'IFAW's landscape work in Amboseli proves conservation is not a zero-sum game between humans and elephants ... Ends ... About IFAW....

Book review of 'Beyond Words; What Animals Think and Feel'

Edit The Examiner 25 Nov 2015
Beyond Words.What Animals Think and Feel, by Carl Safina, Henry Holt Co., 2015, 480 p. Many scholars from those enrolled in Middle School General Science to PhD professors have been exposed to and likely held the standard that prohibits anthropomorphizing animal behaviors ... Readers travel to Amboseli National Park in Kenya to learn of elephants trying to survive drought and poaching ... Yet he tells the stories ... These stories are evidence ... ....

U.S. Zoos Propose Importing Wild African Elephants

Edit Huffington Post 09 Nov 2015
The American public is under the impression that elephants are no longer captured in the wild and imported for display in zoos ... Simply put, elephants do not belong in zoos. The U.S ... ... And they fully expect it to pay off ... This essay was written with Catherine Doyle, Director of Science, Research & Advocacy with the Performing Animal Welfare Society (PAWS), and Keith Lindsay, Conservation Biologist with the Amboseli Trust for Elephants ... ....
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