KWS intelligence officers visited our office at Oltukai in the evening just for our usual updates on what is happening in the ecosystem, Mr. Daniel Yiankere accompanied by Hamdi Ahmed. They informed us that they were called upon to rescue an animal that the community at Ilbisil did not have an idea what it was. They produced a baby cat from a small box and I asked them what it was but they did not have a hint. They bought it into our office and immediately I identified it to be a Caracal kitten.

The lion population in the Amboseli ecosystem is dwindling at an alarming rate considering the current population of the same in Kenya to be about 2000 only. When one ask a warrior how long it will take them to finish lions, two months is what they say. I hate to imagine the same happening to lions like it did to rhinos in the ecosystem. Lion killing is a tradition deeply embedded in the Maasai culture as opposed to elephant killings, which is mainly due to conflicts.

It was my first time to visit one of the European countries, the Netherlands – a country (often called Holland) in Western Europe, bordering the North Sea, with Belgium on its southern frontier and Germany on its eastern side. Its total area is 41,528 km² (16,034 sq miles), of which 33,900 km² of it is land, divided into 12 provinces. The official language is Dutch and its capital Amsterdam with a population of about 6.3 million people. Around 60 percent of the country consists of land reclaimed from the sea and still the reclaiming continues even today.