Migration of Wildebeests

You might have heard about the spectacular migration of mammals on earth. Do you? which only take place in East Africa Kenya Tanzania ecosystem. The Wildebeests circle occurred throughout annually, at the moment the circle is in the greater Maasai Mara national reserve. That's our pride as Kenyan having this magnificent spectacular wildlife event, which is one of the world wonders.

This migration of wildebeest as a term used mostly by the Maa Silver research of flora and fauna volunteers is a really rare phenomenon event. Only takes place every year in the Mara river when they battle for their life with hungry reptiles called Nile crocodiles, when they focus crossing to the great ecosystem of Mara in search of plenty of their delicacy red oath grass in the savannah grassland.

At the moment its their high season to roamed around from July - Oct mating in Kenya territories, then the circle continued to southern part of Tanzania spending December - February, where they breed and rear their calfs before the journey starts back to the toughest crossing of Mara river with a focus "Cross or die in the land of plenty Maasai Mara".

Picture taken by Maa silver research volunteer

It is an event that occurred with obstacles like human encroachment, where lots of camps now are situated right on their crossing points and also burning of the pastures on their routes to stop them coming. But all in vain to stop the mission and their vision that every year must be a reality.

Another obstacle is the predators targeting to celebrate the feast, but less cared by the population of 1.3 million wildebeests, 250,000 Thomsons Gazelles and 200,000 Common Zebras.
latest videos from the field
Maasai Mara Predators

Tunapanda Team Building in Ngong Hills

After a successful two days team building, we went for a hike in Ngong Hills Kajiado county the peak is 2460 metres above sea level.
Ngong is a Maasai phrase means Engong emuny Rhinoceros Spring this name derives from a spring located near Ngong town.

Our team of thirty IT trainers with same goal to conquer the hills bear the fruits, when we all reach at the peak of the hills with the led of our professional safari guides who have locally knowledge and rich in fauna and flora experience.

At the peak of Ngong Hills

It was not an easy task as obstacles like fog making most of the people shivering as we take time to accustomed by performing some warm up practices. Another obstacle is forest soldiers nick name in our hiking as juzi juzi those are Safari ants that attacked us while walking a long the steep hills.
We spotted the Bush buck, lots of birds for instance the Augur Buzzard and Rock Python at the edge of thick Sickle Acacia trees.
We all make it and successfully conquers and went back to our Kisame Giraffe Camp located in the Rift valley.

Ngong Hills view at Kisame Dam

Rock climbing for funs

Humanitarian OpenStreetMapping

When I started contributing to OpenStreet mapping community. I volunteered to map my local area and make the invisible visible. By tracing and place schools, buildings and villages onto a global world map, this is one of the achievement I did to give back to the community.

Volunteers from Tunapanda Institute and Map Kibera in Nairobi Kenya

On May 2016, we started joining the Humanitarian OpenStreetMapping community when the task of mapping Tanzania development trust in Serengeti district begun. Where we contributed with them to map the mugumo localities.

Joining HOT Tanzania Mapping Project.

On July 2016, we have also participated project #1988 task for Milange district of Mozambique with Purpose to help indoor residual malaria spraying programs.

Data created from this mapping effort, will help Indoor Residual Spraying programs in Mozambique plan for the upcoming spray campaign. On completion of the base map by remote mappers, Peace Corps Volunteers in Zambezia Province will work with their Mozambican counterparts to complete Field Papers in key villages and towns then add local knowledge to OSM.

Mozambique Project for eradicating Malaria.

Ololchurra is one of the areas in Maasai Mara that before the Openstreet map, Schools and villages were no where to be seen in global maps but thanks to the OSM community for not restricting who and where can volunteers be to contribute to Humanitarians OpenStreet Mapping tasks (HOT).

Mapping My local Area in Maasai Mara.