Park Boubandjida Cameroon • Paul Bour Safaris Photo

After a particularly busy holiday season we returned to calmer days ... January is traditionally low and we take this opportunity to get over the intense activity that preceded the opening of campaign ...
Start with a bang on observations of wildlife is followed by a cold shower, with echoes of the return of ivory poachers, called "Sudanese poaching" ... These poachers mounted horses and heavily armed scour the area again and decimate herds of elephants in the area ... It is about several tens of animals slaughtered in the nearby park area. Highly mobile and seasoned poachers war seem to worry about any reaction ... And they know they are widely supported by people who do not see a dim view of the destruction of elephants responsible for the devastation of crops, and Are also pleased to have the meat of animals slaughtered for their ivory only.
It seems that this time the riders have crossed the border without difficulty, until the next raid ... But we got the help of the military and even an observation aircraft was mobilized, unsuccessfully ... But at least we are able to coordinate our efforts ... Hopefully this will eventually produce a result ...

Maneuvers also around the projects that look at the bedside of Boubandjida .... After years of drought it seems that the financial windfall fell to the present on the park and surrounding area. Hopefully this financial hail not destroy the delicate plans we have sown in recent years ...
At our level we are trying to rebuild a coherent and strengthened anti poaching, in collaboration with the ZIC Lamidat and neighboring ... Eternal beginning, made necessary by a more worrisome situation ...

Newcomers to Boubandjida too! The zoo in Limbe gave us three Sulcata tortoises, these giant tortoises that once existed in the region and who have completely disappeared. If they can reproduce, we will try to reintroduce them in their natural habitat ... Bet difficult, but it is not the first!