I wish I could tell you that there have been downpours in Amboseli, but it's not true. Earlier in the week we received the first drops rain, only 4 mm. It didn't even make the ground damp. There has been rain outside Park, but it seems to be too late for the wildebeests, zebras and buffaloes. They are dying very rapidly now and because they are so weak they are getting picked off by the predators.

The elephants are still struggling and some are still dying but they can eat trees and bushes and so a greater proportion of them have survived. Still they have suffered badly and their families are being disrupted by serious losses. We don't know what the social structure will look like once this is all over. And we can only hope it will be over at some point.