http://savingsnakes.wildlifedirect.org Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:51:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It has been a while since our last blog. This has been a very tough year for all of us in Kenya. Hopefully things will start to improve soon as we love our country, it's people and it's wildlife but we all came close to the abyss this year. Security ... http://savingsnakes.wildlifedirect.org/2008/10/15/children-and-snakes-teaching-the-next-generation/ Bio-Ken Snake Farm are holding the Sixth International Snakebite Seminar. It will be held at Turtle Bay Beach Club in Watamu, Kenya on Saturday 27th of September 2008, starting at 9am. The purpose of this seminar is to expand on the new WHO Snakebite Treatment Guidelines and their relevance in ... http://savingsnakes.wildlifedirect.org/2008/08/21/snake-bite-treatment-training-and-james-ashe-anti-venom-trust/ On behalf of all of the staff and animals at Bio-Ken Snake Farm in Watamu, Sanda Ashe, my wife Clare and I would like to wish all our friends, family and Blog readers a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New year for 2008. This was a hard year for ... http://savingsnakes.wildlifedirect.org/2007/12/25/merry-christmas/ On Friday 14th December we packed the baby snakes born this month at the snake farm, not for export to some unknown owner in Germany or New York, but for release into the best place for them, the African bush. School holidays are here and it is time to give our ... http://savingsnakes.wildlifedirect.org/2007/12/19/32-snakes-released/ We spent Tuesday and Wednesday at Bio-Ken with a National Geographic film crew who had come especially to document the Large Brown Spitting Cobras Naja ashei we have there. It went very well and we did several shots including a venom milking session and comparison with specimens of our Black ... http://savingsnakes.wildlifedirect.org/2007/12/13/filming-the-large-spitter/ This new Large Brown Spitting Cobra Naja ashei has really brought us a lot of attention. I must share with you the three most common questions that we are getting. 1. Really! how long is the largest specimen of this species on record? 2. Who was James Ashe and why did you ... http://savingsnakes.wildlifedirect.org/2007/12/10/the-biggest-spitting-cobra/ Yes! The world has decided to take notice about saving snakes with the discovery of the Large Brown Spitting Cobra Naja ashei at Bio-Ken Snake Farm in Watamu, Kenya. With the help of a press release that went out on Friday 7th November 2007, in the afternoon through Wildlife direct ... http://savingsnakes.wildlifedirect.org/2007/12/10/spitting-cobra-day/ This Snake is truly an awesome snake. It is huge for a cobra in general but it is absolutely massive compared to the other spitting cobras. These guys get really big and a record of a specimen caught by James Ashe in the 1960's was just over 9ft in length. ... http://savingsnakes.wildlifedirect.org/2007/12/07/right-name-for-new-big-spitter/ Just a short one today. I am taking eight clients to Tsavo tomorrow and we will be staying at Kulalu camp for two nights. Kulalu is on the bank of the Galana river to the south of Tsavo East national park. The last time I was there with clients, we ... http://savingsnakes.wildlifedirect.org/2007/12/03/off-to-tsavo-tomorrow/ Today I saved a very nice Green Mamba Dendroaspis angusticeps form the Croze's house on Plot 31, Watamu. The house staff were cleaning the house when on the top floor in one of the rooms one, of them spotted the Mamba lying on the dressing table. Fortunately because they know us ... http://savingsnakes.wildlifedirect.org/2007/12/02/green-mamba-saved/