Report by: Leon Lamprecht
Location: Karibu, Tanzania
Date: 18 July 2006
A warm welcome to all our guests at Tanzania Wildlife Company! Our website is up and running and we on the Management side are starting to get some time to keep you posted on what is happening on this side of the world.
We have come a long way since the signing of the management contract in Reno at the convention earlier this year.
We had some minor problems, which is normal with new investors in country but this is also good since it sorts the men from the boys. We had a very late, but very good, rainy season in most of Tanzania but especially in Arusha and in the Selous Game Reserve. Three of our camps are brand new and of the best standard in East African hunting. We ordered equipment in Tanzania, South Africa and the USA. After various delays we finally received the last of our equipment just as it got dry enough in the areas to start building camps.
In the Selous, because of the late rains we had to send our first clients on their photo safari first to enable us to get everything in place. The hunt went very well even with the wet conditions. A father and son, Dick and Cody Idol, hunted with PH John Greeff and were success full in getting a monster hippo and big buffalo among other very nice trophies.
Jack Brittingham and I went down to the Selous with the Idols after their photo safari and Jack was successful with the bow and killed a big hippo bull. We came close to getting a leopard as well but eventually ran out of time before we came up to Lake Natron where Jack joined his family to see if they could harvest some of the East African species. Jack was again successful and took an exceptionally big Gerenuk with the bow today. This has not been done by too many bow hunters and surely is a great accomplishment.
Various new ideas have been implemented by us this year and some of them have been very successful so far. We equipped all our camps with trail cameras to assist us in collecting data on our cat population. All our camp managers have been instructed to use any available meat to bait cats and collect photos of them.
In the past ten days of hunting in the LU4 area of the Selous Game Reserve, we managed to photograph 7 different leopards of which one was an exceptionally good male. The others are 2 younger males, 2 females and 2 cubs, 1 male and 1 female. All of these cats were on eight different baits. Included you will find some photographs of some of these cats.
We have put out 4 different baits for leopard in Lake Natron so far and will keep you posted on what the results are. In the next day or two, we will summit Mount Kitumbeini to access the buffalo and leopard population there.
I’m sure I am as excited about the season as you are and will definitely keep you, our friends, current clients and future clients up to date as the season progresses.
Happy hunting and all of the best for the coming season,
Leon Lamprecht
Managing Director
Tanzania Wildlife Company
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