Rescued Ostrich, George, has been filmed swimming in lake Baringo in Kenya's Great Rift Valley.

George was recently moved from Roberts' Camp on the western shores of Lake Baringo to a more natural environment on Longicharu Island's Ruko Conservation Area.

Ruko is a relatively new conservation area, gaining recent international press from the amazing Giraffe translocation, partly via barge, across Lake Baringo.

Having been moved to the island, when the translocation team left via boat, George decided to follow. It seems the ostrich took water translocation one step further than his new long necked island companions, and decided to take himself for a swim in the Lake.

Local fishermen, and the Ruko rangers coaxed George back to the island, and persuaded him to stay. George is now happily settled in the conservation area; although he does keep the rangers and island visitors entertained with his antics and friendly behaviour.

We now have Kimana Tuller helping Ross and Caro out at Samatian.

She was brought up on the Kenyan coast and is a fun and energetic character, a great host and fabulous cook.

We look forward to working with her this season.

Last year we had a generous donation of 5,000 US$ from the Kushell family to help build a new class room at the local primary school on Ol Kokwa Island.

There are many excited children as they hear of the building to commence this holiday ready for the start of the year in September.

A 10ft Python was found on Longicharo, where it had eaten a newborn impala. On 29/06/2011.

Fred and Charlie were given the task of catching and moving the python to a new location.

It was important to move the python because last year five out of six of our baby impalas on Longicharo were eaten by a python!

Until we have a much larger Impala population there we need to keep the pythons at bay.

Five impala have been born in the last two weeks. Which brings the population up to seventeen.

The population on the mainland are also doing really well and the rangers count is in excess of 100 Impalas.

Cases of poaching are very rare as the local community is recognising what a valuable resource wildlife is.

The numbers of game outside the fence is increasing quickly as poaching is decreasing thanks to the communities awareness and the patroling Rangers.