On Thursday, I spent the better part of my afternoon with over a hundred students from the Bishop Njenga Secondary School in Challa Division outside Tsavo West National Park. I was there to raise awareness on the illegal Bushmeat trade and donate copies of old Swara magazine that EAWLS is giving out to schools in an effort to create interest on biodiversity conservation in School going youths.

On awareness rising, I showed a short film called ‘Mizoga’ – which directly translates to “carcasses”- that was written and Directed by the Born Free Foundation and presented T-shirts carrying Bushmeat messages to students and teachers.

The students, who expected to see the usual wildlife films from the Mara or Serengeti, were pleasantly surprised to see a film produced in Swahili and enacted in one of the villages around the Tsavo ecosystem. The educative film which sends the message through entertainment shows a village grappling with the effects of the illegal bushmeat trade through the thrills, drama and tragedy that surrounds this illegal activity. The photos of the attentive students below tell it all…

Iregi Mwenja

EAWLS

Technorati : Born Free, Bushmeat, Bushmeat trade, Community, Conservation, EAWLS, East African Wildlife Society, Mizoga, Poachers, Poaching, Swara, Taveta, Tsavo, Tsavo West