Senegal Manatee Rescue Video Click here: Navel Rescue video This video is from the rescues we did in January 2009 at Navel in eastern Senegal but the video was only posted online a few months ago. Better late than never! There were many agencies involved, as listed in the description. I provided the satellite tags and tagging expertise to this project. These rescues continue on […]
Mali wrap-up (for now) Mali is a very important place to study the West African manatee because this population is isolated thousands of miles inland from their coastal relatives. As the photo above shows (courtesy of Google Earth), the inland Niger delta is a huge wetland that nourishes an otherwise extremely arid desert region. Manatees here were naturally isolated once they colonized this area however
New project webpage The Save Our Seas Foundation, one of my funders, has created a new website for my African manatee work… check it out at http://saveourseas.com/projects/manatees_ga. Right now it’s in somewhat of a first draft form because we’re waiting to add photos of West African manatees (coming soon I hope!), there will be a link to this blog, and hopefully other info in the
African Manatee Training Workshop in Djenne, Mali (Sorry, I would’ve liked to have posted this earlier, but we are having constant power outages in Dakar!) During the last week of November, I led a manatee research and conservation training workshop with 11 participants from 4 countries (Mali, Niger, Chad, and Ivory Coast) in Djenne, Mali. This is the first time I’ve run a workshop on
Mali: Sevare and Mopti In mid-November we spent the Tabaski holiday in Sevare with our colleague Semega’s sister and her family. After that we met up with Abdoulaye Guindo at his office. He’s the Niger River Basin Authority manager here. Abdoulaye attended the training workshop I co-led in Ghana last year and it was good to see him again! He’s hoping to start manatee research
Mali: Bamako to Sevare On Tuesday morning we drove out of a smoke-filled Bamako as everyone began preparing to cook their sheep for the Tabaski holiday the following day. Once we left the city the air cleared and we drove through an area of very cool rock formations, then into a zone of lush forest, then finally into a Sahelian scrub landscape that became drier
Mali: Bamako It’s been a busy and interesting few days in Bamako. After arriving last Thursday, Tomas and I met up with one of our Malian colleagues, Alfousseini, who took us on a grand tour of the city. The city is defined by the Niger River which passes through on it’s long journey from the mountains of Guinea, north through Mali, Niger and Nigeria on
Enroute to Maliimage courtesy of whatgives365.files.wordpress.com Tomorrow morning I’ll travel from Senegal to Bamako, Mali to work with manatee colleagues Alfousseini Semega and Abdoulaye Guindo, and see their manatee study sites in the inland Niger River delta. Later in the trip I’ll also lead a week long manatee research and conservation training workshop for African colleagues, very similar to the ones I taught in Ghana