Colobus Trust

Category: Marketing, Primate Rescue/Rehabilitation | Date: Nov 22 2007 | By: admin

This week at the Colobus Trust we began preparations for our annual fundraiser, a kite surfing competition, which will be held on December 28th and 29th at Forty Thieves beach bar in Diani. We are going to receive part of the entry fee for the event, and also raise money through raffle tickets. Yesterday some of us went to Mombasa to contact hotels and other businesses and get them to donate prizes for our tombola and get them to support us in other ways too. It went fairly well, and some hotel managers seemed enthusiastic about the idea.

Tuesday was a long day for our volunteer vet Sal. In the morning we picked up a pregnant suni who was having trouble giving birth, and Sal performed a cesarian on it, but unfortunately neither the suni nor the baby could be saved. That same day we received an animal welfare call, which turned out to be a young injured vervet. It was in pretty bad shape and unfortunately had to be euthanised.

There were many other things going on this week, which kept us volunteers quite busy. Every day this week as well as last week we received a group of Gap Year kids from Camp Kenya, and our assistant manager Gwili has been working very hard to accommodate their needs while still trying to show them what we do in terms of conservation work, giving them lectures and taking them out in the field. Yesterday we took them on a Colobus diet analysis at the site of the old Colobus Trust, and we tracked a troop of 8 Colobus and observed them eat for a couple of hours. We hope they enjoyed it, I certainly did.

Isabelle
Colobologist