The Amboseli Trust for Elephants (ATE) started an initiative of supporting young Maasai girls in high school and also paying University scholarship for girls and boys.

We trained 15 community game scouts, who will be running two elephant anti-poaching camps situated to the south of Amboseli National Park. As elephant and other wildlife guardians the scouts will alert ATE and Kenya Wildlife Service personnel of potential threats to elephants. The camps will be strategically set to ensure that there are frequent crossborder (Kenya and Tanzania) patrols to curb potential elephant poaching.

For many months now Elephant observation has been few with groups not exceeding more than fifteen individuals. More often than not we have been recording single Elephants even calves ranging from three and a half to five years old. The few that are seen are skinny, dull, weak and slowly dragging themselves desperately in search for food.

Adam [the AA family unit boy] was born in 1968, son to Alyce, who was born in 1950 and died in 1979, and he had a brother born in 1979 but died same year – which might have been due to his mother's death. Adam and his sister Amelia – born in 1973 – are the only survivors in their nuclear family. Amelia is doing quite well with a family of 7 (There's Anghared – first born female, Abel – second born male, Ann – third born female, and Ava – fifth born female.

The EBs are still not together, sometimes Enid and Eleanor come together but only stick for some time. Ella's whereabouts are still unknown, but we hope she is safe and staying out of trouble. It is very dry in the entire ecosystem and most of the elephants are outside the park. Edwina and her calves are not moving far, they are always in Oltukai Orok, where the Elephant Research Camp is situated. Eliot who is "mama" to all orphans, spends most her time with Esprit and Eudora spends most of the time with Elspeth and their calves.

KWS intelligence officers visited our office at Oltukai in the evening just for our usual updates on what is happening in the ecosystem, Mr. Daniel Yiankere accompanied by Hamdi Ahmed. They informed us that they were called upon to rescue an animal that the community at Ilbisil did not have an idea what it was. They produced a baby cat from a small box and I asked them what it was but they did not have a hint. They bought it into our office and immediately I identified it to be a Caracal kitten.

The lion population in the Amboseli ecosystem is dwindling at an alarming rate considering the current population of the same in Kenya to be about 2000 only. When one ask a warrior how long it will take them to finish lions, two months is what they say. I hate to imagine the same happening to lions like it did to rhinos in the ecosystem. Lion killing is a tradition deeply embedded in the Maasai culture as opposed to elephant killings, which is mainly due to conflicts.

It was my first time to visit one of the European countries, the Netherlands – a country (often called Holland) in Western Europe, bordering the North Sea, with Belgium on its southern frontier and Germany on its eastern side. Its total area is 41,528 km² (16,034 sq miles), of which 33,900 km² of it is land, divided into 12 provinces. The official language is Dutch and its capital Amsterdam with a population of about 6.3 million people. Around 60 percent of the country consists of land reclaimed from the sea and still the reclaiming continues even today.