CYCLE WITH THE RHINO 2009

Hahaha, in my own perspective having participated in this event three times, its very adventurous. In other words its full of sweet risk, scorching heat, and it requires enormous courage on-the-inside to brush shoulders with charging buffaloes, investigative lions, and you never know when the rhino will give you company. You have to be physically fit my friend for the event!

Left, myself pushing the peddle in the Cycle with the Rhino race last 2008 in Lake Nakuru National Park. Out of over fifty cyclists, managed 12th position. Previous year 2007 was 19.

All the same cycle with the Rhino 2009 is a spectacular adrenaline packed unique event that is held at the Lake Nakuru National Park where you get to cycle viewing wild animals. The race is organised in collaboration with Lake Nakuru Park Action Committee and Nakuru town Business community.

Lake Nakuru National Park is known as the “Jewel of Kenya’s National Parks”, it’s renowned to be a Bird watcher’s paradise famous for over a million flamingos, very successful rhino sanctuary and a Ramsar site. The park also boasts of hosting over 300 species of plants, 450 species of birds and 50 species of mammals. Over the years there are various challenges facing the existence of the parks ranging from wild fires, human wildlife conflict, deforestation, and competition for water resources.

The essence of this event is to support the government conserve this jewel, Lake Nakuru National Park.

According to the sponsors, the proceeds of this year’s event shall go towards community projects around Lake Nakuru National Park supporting the human wildlife conflict, tree planting and awareness creation on resource management, and Kenya Wildlife Service Conservation Trust.

This event will be held on Saturday September 19, 2009. For more details on the event cycle here.

Right, after the race.

EL NINO: Kenyans hope and fear

All parts of the country are subject to periodic droughts, or delays in the start of the rainy seasons. Kenya’s climate has had a profound effect on settlement patterns, as for centuries population has been concentrated in the wettest areas of the country.

Left, livestock has been hit severely by drought.

Usually, rainfall occurs seasonally throughout most of Kenya. The coast, eastern plateaus, and lake basin experience two rainy seasons with the “long rains” extending roughly from March to June, and the “short rains” lasting from approximately October to December. The highlands of western Kenya have a single long rainy season, lasting from March to September.

Today there is no rain, there is no heallthy surviving livestock while others have gave in, and there is no harvest this season if the mercy of the heavens dont intervene.

Generally, the hottest time is in February and March and the coldest in July and August. Kenya’s different topographical regions experience distinct climates.

According to the 4th Triennial Global Consultation on Creation Stewardship and Climate Change held this July in Limuru, Kenya, changing weather patterns, rising sea levels, and an increase in the quantity and intensity of natural disasters such as hurricanes and floods and diseases such as malaria have the greatest impact on the poorest people in our world. "In order to minimise the harm associated with these changes and call for climate justice for the poor, responsible stewardship of God's creation requires us to tackle these causes," they state.

In its most recent update on the subject, the UN World Meteorological Organization stated that the expectation is for El Niño conditions to very likely prevail through the remainder of 2009 and into the first quarter of 2010. Susequently, the United Nations is helping Kenya prepare to mitigate the effects of torrential rains expected in the last three months of 2009 due to El Niño weather pattern.

Now that we are learning the hard way and experiencing the kicks of mother nature, its our responsibility to support the democratic and transparent governance of institutions that provide community environmental services from grassroot levels, and take actions as individuals for a better environment. I do.

Above right, a tourvan cruises through Lake Amboseli in Amboseli National Park. The drought hasn't spared the wildlife either.

NEW WORLD ORDER

Dear Friends.

What is New World Order? Does it exist? Who created it? Was it there since the beginning of the age? Are we at the edge? Are we at risk? Was it prophesised?

New World Order. Am researching about the New World Order, am concerned as an individual but tell me more, where is the world today and where is it? Tomorrow?

Please read WORLD WAR THREE link at my blog specials.

Please post your comments.

"Men think in herds, go mad in herds, but recover their senses one by one." Charles Mackay.