The First Step Towards Insulating Diani’s Powerlines
Category: Habitat Restoration/Conservation, Human - Primate Conflict Resolution | Date: Sep 10 2008 | By: colobus
We had a fantastic day yesterday, together with Camp Kenya & KPLC we started insulating and covering powerlines in two areas where previous fatalities have occurred!
Firstly we had to prepare the PVC piping by cutting it laterally. Students and Colobus Trust staff were doing this for most of the day and together cut over 200 meters of piping…all this with only little improvised saws!
We took advantage of a planned power outage for the whole of the south coast to allow us to get a whole days work done. Once the pipes were prepared the KPLC team put them in place covering two of the four lines, thus insulating the span. All together we insulated over 100 meters of lines in two key areas. We hope the success of this pilot project will lead to great things!
Many watched as this momentous occasion occurred and we hope to get more of our hotspots done next week.
Below is a photograph of the piping in place
We will keep you updated!
Gwili
Tags: colobus, diani, electrocutions, kplc, primates
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The Colobus Trust was established in Diani Beach, Kenya, in 1997 to save the endangered Angolan colobus monkey which was a frequent victim of roadkills. The Trust's trademark is Colobridges - bridges over the roads for save overpass. Gwili, a Welsh volunteer at the Trust reports on the day to day activities in an busy local primate conservation charity
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My name is Gwili Gibbon. I'm Assistant Manager at The Colobus Trust. I am a British ex-volunteer who returned to work at the Trust after university, truly a dream come true. I joined in October 2007 and work hard to do what we can with our limited budget and small, but hardworking, team of volunteers and staff. I am using the experience I have gained through my education (& time here) and intend to use it to do all I can to ensure the survival of Colobus angolensis palliatus and it's associated habitats.
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2 Responses to “The First Step Towards Insulating Diani’s Powerlines”
sheryl, washington dc, on 10 Sep 2008
Awesome! How many more feet of lines do you need to cover?
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Colobus, on 15 Sep 2008
Well, ideally all of them! But the lines on hotspots we have identified measure 4.8 km.
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