Written by Louise Leakey | 11 January 2010

In the recent and excellent Issue of ARKive, the newsletter of The Rhino Ark, they published an updated illustration of the Rhino Ark Aberdare Fence which was completed on the 28th of August, 2009. In the earlier post I had put up a similar illustration from Rhino Ark from 2006. You can see on the most recent map where the final fence post was planted in the Kipipiri Extra Section. Many Congratulations to Rhino Ark for this tremendous achievement. We pleased to have played a small part in this hugely important fencing project as Car 17 in the Rhino Charge over the past six years.

Written by Louise Leakey | 07 December 2009

It was a big day for Rhino Ark when late 2009 the last fence post of the 400 km long fence was put into the ground ceremoniously by Forestry and Wildlife Minister, Noah Wekesa,  with Colin Church of Rhino Ark and Julius Kipnetich of KWS looking on. This huge achievement has taken just over 20 years and the majority of the support has been raised by teams like ourselves in the annual Rhino Charge event.

I found this photograph in the online version of Nation Newspaper which shows the last fence post being planted.

Now the hard work begins- how to maintain this important fence and to ensure that the efforts of the past two decades does not go to waste. Rhino Ark started a maintainanc fund in June 2003 into which 20% of Net Revenue from each Rhino Charge event was placed. The building of this fund to ensure that the Aberdare fence is maintained will be the primary focus of this years Rhino Charge event.

Here is a helful illustration showing the progress of construction of the Aberdare fence as of 2006. I am hoping to get a more up to date version of this to post here also courtesy of Rhino Ark.

Written by Louise Leakey | 07 December 2009

We are very excited to have put a new website together this year where we will be able to keep you up to date with this blog, with facebook and we are hoping to  have some fun with Twitter too.

Here we will give you an opportunity to get to know our team better. On this blog we will post personal excerpts about our preparations, news from the Abadares and the activities of Rhino Ark, planned fundraising events and funding goals and possibly occasional posts about our professional lives.

You will be able to leave us comments and suggestions, please feel free to write to us.