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Andrea Leslie counts stream insects
Image by USFWS/Southeast
In April, 2013, the University of Georgia, Land Trust for the Little Tennessee, and a host of other partners organized Macon County’s, N.C.’s first Kids in the Creek event. It brought 8th grade students from across the watershed to Cartoogechaye Creek, to spend a day learning about the stream. During the course of the field trip, students rotated through four statins - water chemistry, hydrology, fish sampling, and aquatic invertebrate sampling. At the stream invertebrate station, the students collected animals, used simple keys to identify what they caught, and reflected on what the number and diversity of their catch says about stream health.
The watershed is home to the endangered Appalachian elktoe mussel, leading to the Service’s commitment to this educational event, specifically helping teach students about the diversity of life in the stream and the importance of the stream’s invertebrates, which includes not only mussels but also insects that form important parts of the stream food web and serve as indicators of stream health.
Credit: Gary Peeples/Asheville Field Office
Hirola bull
Image by Rainbirder
This is Africa's rarest antelope. It was probably never very common and represents a rather primitive line in the Alcelaphine group of antelope (Hartebeest, Wildebeest, Topi, Blesbok and Bontebok).
I was lucky to see this individual who is one of perhaps 50-70 animals derived from a population that were translocated to Tsavo East National park by the Kenyan Wildlife Service in an attempt to establish an out of range "insurance population". In Tsavo they are holding their own despite competition (Hartebeest and Topi) and a high predator population but the best chance for survival of this enigmatic species lies with an exciting partnership project which has been set up within the Hirola's natural range. This project is reliant upon the good will and participation of a group of Kenyan Somali pastoralists who have agreed to turn over a significant part of their land for Hirola conservation.
You can read about Hirola conservation here:
safaritalk.net/page/articles.html/_/articles/the-critical...
and here:
www.nrt-kenya.org/conservancies/Ishaqbini.html
Ishaqbini will hopefully establish tourist facillities in the not too distant future (the area is full of wildlife including lions and wild dogs).
If you are in Tsavo and want to try and see Hirola then check out the circuit that runs from the Aruba dam to Satao camp to Satao airstrip and back to the dam. This is a fairly large area with no off-road driving so you need some luck but they are sighted with some regularity according to the local guides.
Framed by a friend.
