BY Rupi Mangat
Above: Lion defending his prey from Silver-backed jackals and Ruppell’s vultures listed Critically endangered on IUCN Red List in Soysambu . By Rupi Mangat Published: Saturday magazine 4 January 2019 A vulture circling high in the midday sky gives the first clue that there has to be something interesting on the ground. Following its wing-beat […]
BY Rupi Mangat
Above: Elusive leopard in Mara early morning. Copyright Maya Mangat Published: 23 February 2019 The view is dramatic view of the great Mara from the heights of Siria Escarpment of the big game country. A few miles from Mara’s Oloololo gate, dots appear. It’s a trio of elephants in the midday heat at a mud […]
BY Rupi Mangat
Part 1 of 2 Above: The annual Mara Migration of the wildebeest from the Serengeti Copyright Rupi Mangat There is excitement in the air. We’ve been on the plains since sunrise, watching the sun shed its light on the vast grass plains of the Maasai Mara, tinting the long stalks gold and warming the earth. […]
BY Rupi Mangat
With the vultures watching The White-backed Vultures atop the trees by the side of the red road of Tsavo give the game away. There has to be something in the sea of grass. We stop. It’s stunning scenery – a low ridge of black lava outcrop, long luscious grass topped with purple heads and one […]
BY Rupi Mangat
The dire need for government to recognize the problem of poison Published in The East African-Nation Media 16-22 September 2017 It was in 2005 while researching for her doctorate on Mackinder’s Eagle Owls around Nyeri in Kenya’s central highlands that Darcy Ogada realized there was a problem at hand – that of poisoning. “I was […]
BY Rupi Mangat
A little garden of Eden Published Saturday magazine, Nation media 8 July 2017 Above: Masai giraffe looking at cement factory by Lukenya Hill on Athi-Kapiti plains outside Nairobi Copyright Rupi Mangat: At first l think l must be seeing things but blinking my eyes again, l am looking at a fringe-eared oryx mixed in a […]
BY Rupi Mangat
Critically Endangered vultures threatened by wind farm Published The East African, Nation media 22-28 April 2017 Ruppell’s vulture landing – copyright Munir Virani Since 2015 four of the eight species of vultures in Kenya have been listed as Critically Endangered by the International Union of Conservation of Nature (IUCN). This means they are one step […]
BY Rupi Mangat
With an amazing raptor-filled day in Tsavo West Published Saturday magazine, Nation newspaper 22 April 2017 Above: Lappet-faced vulture with Tawny eagle in Tsavo West National Park at Lake Jipe on the Kenya-Tanzania border Copyright Rupi Mangat The road from Grogan’s Castle is a long thin thread through a bush-filled veld of Prosopis juliflora, one […]
BY Rupi Mangat
Marathon runners of the sky Dr Darcy Ogada Rüppell’s Vultures are the marathon runners of the sky. They soar over huge distances to find their favourite meal of carrion. When they arrive at a carcass, often together with White-backed vultures, they can strip a carcass bare in a matter of minutes. They are such highly-evolved […]
