Adventures in the Mara

Announced on 21 July, the LVBC has signed MOUs with three universities to facilitate applied research in the Basin. The selected universitie...

These lions were drinking from a small puddle of water left behind in a safari van's wake.

That's right, we found our first live muscle in the Mara River this last week. Martin, our guard for the day, actually located it. We ...

We were driving out of a small riparian forest near the confluence of the Mara and Talek rivers when we hit a big mud patch. Amanda exited ...

Simullidae...this sucker, literally, usually doesn't need the best water quality conditions. We find him at some of our sites as the qu...

We ran into Mara Conservancy Will at the New Mara Bridge during our last sampling effort.  It was just about 3pm and we were running a bit ...

A hard learned lesson for us.   We spent about 12 hours over two days getting unstuck four times in the Masai Mara.  Two of the times we wer...

We actually don't find many, if any of these guys. I spotted this one in a small, stagnant pool situated on a rock face in the flood zo...

Another important resident of the Mara...

We've been following this through email correspondances since it happened. Allegedly there was a chemical waste spill into the Tigithe ...

These guys have a vicious sting if you try and hold them for too long.  

Check these two guys out.  They were both found at practically the same spot on the bank of the Mara near the New Mara Bridge.  We were just...