For a few weeks now I have taken on the task of assessing colobridge usage for each of our 26 bridges around Diani to make sure that they are indeed being used. This is a long-term project that I hope new volunteers will take on and continue in the future. Thanks to the help of Jacob, who has now left the Trust, and Vincent, who has now just taken on this project and will continue when I leave, we have been observing the bridges early in the morning between 6am and 9am, which is the time when they cross the most.

The video of the colobus crossing a colobridge was taken on one of these mornings while sitting in front of the Leisure Lodge bridge, and it was quite a happy experience to see how well these bridges are working. This morning was a great morning again for those of us on this project - we have seen an entire troop of 8 colobus crossing the bridge we were watching, including two females with black and white infants holding on to them. It was a beautiful thing to see, and I hope that by sharing this it will make people realize how important the colobridges are to Diani’s ecology.

Isabelle
Colobologist

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