The community scouts in West Gate Community Conservancy patrol the area daily to keep livestock out of the Conservation Area, monitor and record wildlife species and generally maintain security within the Conservancy. Ewaso Lions has 3 scouts that are part of the West Gate scouts network. Often the scouts work and stay out in the field at night. Recently, they stayed overnight with the young female elephant who died in January and also “Esidai”, a bull elephant who died a few weeks ago (I will blog about him soon).
Jeneria Lekilele (Ewaso Lions scout) herding goats away from the Conservation Area, after they strayed across the river
However, the scouts have struggled to stay out in the field at night due to the mosquitoes and the cold that springs upon them late at night. We decided to donate one of our small camp tents to assist them with their duties. Stephen, the Head of Security of West Gate, was very grateful and said that now nothing will stop them from protecting the increasing wildlife in the Conservation Area.
Stephen with the tent at the West Gate Headquarters
I felt that the community scouts needed this tent a lot more than we did. This tent stayed pretty much in my car if/when I happened to get stuck out in the field overnight. However the reality is that we are short of a tent now. If you are able to make a small donation for us to get one again, we would really appreciate it. The one we donated to West Gate cost us approximately $6o.