Comments on: Welcome to the Kilimanjaro Lion Conservation blog. Lions, research, conservation, maasai… and more lions

By: AnzhelaAnzheli

AnzhelaAnzheli — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 05:22:36 +0000

And I liked, will be looking at your site.

By: Seamus

Seamus — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:24:44 +0000

Hey Esion, I had a look at your blog. Thanks for the comment. How is Seattle treating you? (sigh) I fear my mention of navels has given rise to an entire philosophical and semantic debate… It would be appropriate at this point to reveal to my readers who Paula is…. she happens to the conservation director of Wildlifedirect (this blog portal). A good scientist and passionate conservationist, and self-proffessed tree-hugger. Check it out here:
http://wildlifedirect.org/about.php#

By: Esion

Esion — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 04:40:26 +0000

Very nice! I have similar aspirations for my own blog, but look forward to more of yours.
As a large carnivore who has studied (and mapped) his own navel I must confess I had no idea the noses turn from pink to black. Curious.
Esion
PS. What do you call a jar full of belly buttons? Navel reserve.

By: kd

kd — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:38:00 +0000

Congratulations! here’s to the new one! To celebrate I just directed a couple a dead prez’s for the metaphorical bottle of bubbly to break on the ships bow. Or some gas for the plane that you may soar high above that Happy Valley set who would clip the wings of those with flight …..In the spirit of White Mischief and all that, my darling young one…now go find the King! You are commanded!

By: Wanda, Atlanta

Wanda, Atlanta — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:06:26 +0000

The navel threw me a bit too — BUT great post and I love your references into the “idiot blogs” that are out there - but you will find most of us a very serious bunch of conservationist types I think on this blog — anxious to hear more!

By: sheryl, washington dc

sheryl, washington dc — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:04:34 +0000

Welcome! Good first post. I appreciate your candor. I’m a little confused about the discussion of Paula’s navel, though …

By: Seamus

Seamus — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 06:24:24 +0000

Theresa - I will be following up on the outcomes of the poisoning meeting, and hopefully can relate some of it here in the blog.

Don’t get me wrong. There were plenty of good things that arose from the 80’s…. legwarmers. Big glasses. Dire straits. Save-the-whales. The A-team. Princess Di. Knightrider. My comment was more about the saturation of publicly available media, and how perhaps one ends up competing to some extent….

By: Theresa Siskind St Petersburg FL

Theresa Siskind St Petersburg FL — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:04:07 +0000

Hey Seamus, small world we live in. I read Amy Howard, will be helping Antony at the Lion Guardians, terrific news. Will you be able to participate in the up coming conference on wildlife poisoning? Either way, I know your blog will address this issue. BTW, you’re too young to remember MTV in the ’80’s, the New Wave music was awesome…but now, I’m all grown up and conservation is my passion!

By: Seamus

Seamus — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:09:10 +0000

Sauwah,
Thank you for your support. Keep supporting causes that you believe in.

1)I never said anything in my blog about FIV being a significant threat to global lion population numbers
2)lions are not officially endangered. They are “vulnerable”, which is a slightly lower priority classification. http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/15951/summ
If you are interested to know exactly what this means, and how these classifications are made, then you can look here: http://intranet.iucn.org/webfiles/doc/SSC/RedList/RedListGuidelines.pdf
3)it may be true that conservation decisions and media exposure are made on non-rational grounds.

By: Seamus

Seamus — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:51:24 +0000

Paula (sigh)… its probably a good thing you can’t see your navel, as it might be full of fluff (like mine). Yes, apologies for the lack of photo. I am UNABLE to use the offline editor for some time… and wordpress was being unco-operative today.