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The third line on this sign says "Tarangire Primary School"

Yesterday I arrived back from Tarangire National Park, where I visited the Tarangire

Students at the primary school

Primary School and went out with the lion research assistants to track lions in the park.

On

The school yard

Tuesday morning I visited the primary school.  Most of the students at the school are the children of the Tarangire park staff, and some are from the nearby village. 

Mrs. Mbaga helping the students with thier lion stories

The primary school goes up through 7^th grade, and after that the students will go to secondary school in a village quite far from the park.  They will have to move

Students working on their stories. The teacher, Mrs. Pendo Keregese, is at the front of the class.

if they want to continue in school.

When I visited the school, I was first introduced to the head mistress, Mrs. Mbaga, and then we went

I'm helping a student with a question

to Mrs. Pendo Keregese’s third grade class to start the projects.  Ms. Mbaga and one of the lion scientists, Ifura Ukio, explained the project to the students.  After

A student working hard on his story

this I presented the books from Ms. Wilson’s class to the students, and then read Jordon’s lion story to the class, translated into Swahili.  They were interested in the story. 

More students working

After some more explanation of the story project the students began writing their stories.  It was hard work, but they were excited about the project and worked very well. 

Sunset in Tarangire, from our camp

I was very impressed by their nice handwriting!  I have made copies of their stories to bring back to Galtier, and the student’s stories will remain with them at the school.

Ifura, lion project researcher, standing on the car to use the antenna and pick up the lion collar signal

That same afternoon we headed out to look for lions.  I videotaped the radio tracking on this trip, so I don’t have

Tarangire research vehicle

great pictures from that occasion.  You will have to see the video next school year!  But the next day, Wednesday, we went out at 6:30

Bernard and Ifura working on the broken car. The problem was not too bad, so we could keep going and look for lions!

am to track a different pride of lions and I’ve added pictures from this trip here.  We were looking for the New Wazi pride, which has a combination radio/GPS

A boabob tree

collar on one of the females.  The pride had not been seen in two months, but we were lucky to find it that morning!  The GPS

Michela of the New Wazi pride

collar will have tracked their movements during the entire period they were not seen, so when the collar is retrieved it will be very interesting to see where they went.  There are a

A group of zebra in Tarangire

lot of problems with lions killing people’s cattle and goats in the villages around Tarangire Park.  Maybe

NW05, a yound male of the New Wazi pride, and a young female

we will find that the New Wazi pride visited some villages over the past two months.  The young male in the picture below only has a boring database name, NW05.  What other name should we give to this

New Wazi female with GPS collar

lion?  Write me to let me know!