UK troops 'scare Kenyan wildlife'

[kiwi]

UK troops 'scare Kenyan wildlife' 
By Karen Allen
BBC News, Nairobi 
 
The elephants were said to be displeased by low-flying helicopters
British soldiers training in Kenya, accused of frightening wildlife, say they did not overfly the game reserves.
The soldiers, it was claimed, had been flying helicopters so low that they were scaring off the wild animals.

Game wardens in the Samburu district complained that the British forces were hampering Kenya's conservation efforts.

The allegations sparked an urgent investigation and the British High Commission now says none of the alleged incidents took place.

'Illegal' safaris

Members of the First Royal Irish Regiment are undertaking training exercises in Kenya.

But within days of their arrival at Archers Post, about 220 miles (350km) north of Nairobi, they were accused of illegally conducting their own safaris from the air, flying helicopters alarmingly low and scaring off the animals in the nearby game reserves.

A senior warden from Shaba and Buffalo Springs game reserves, Mohammed Tubi, said the soldiers had hovered low in helicopters above the parks for up to 15 minutes at a time.

The deafening noise had scared off elephants, giraffes and other wild animals, he said.

But a spokesperson for the British High Commission in Nairobi said: "As part of current training exercise, British army pilots have in the last few days been testing safety of helicopters in designated training areas, and practising dust landings at the Kenyan School of Engineering, which is 2km outside the game reserves.

"Helicopters follow routine flight paths which avoid game reserves and national parks. They have not flown beneath minimum height restrictions and have not been illegally viewing game."

 

[sniper]

Show me a chopper pilot who knows to with in 10 kms of where he is and I will be surprised.

except those who can find a shrouded strobe light at night in the middle of the J and arrive on the button.

And of course Bushrangers   what more needs to be said....

What is the underlying cause or the report....is it get the Poms out?  or are the gamewardens being missquoted  in a greenie type campain by the press?

[Crusty]

To quote the Duke of Wellington during the Peninsular War, regarding the British Army. "I don't know if they scare the French, but, by God, they frighten me!" So why should wildlife be exempt? 

And let's not forget the several thousand innocent Kenyan women raped and made pregnant by the debauched soldiery. My word, us Brits have a lot to answer to!! 

[kiwi]

Tut tut bloody Pommies having to get a leg over just like the yanks .....




hehee

[Crusty]

NOOoooo. We don't do it just like the Yanks............we do it far, far better than them!!!! 

[kiwi]

Well honestly I wouldn't know 

 

[Crusty]

I have it on the word of an expert. A pleasant young lady in the US Air Force who got me to assist her with her field research whilst I was attached to the UN Honour Guard in Korea in the mid 70's to be exact. 

[kiwi]

You were quite the little charmer weren't you lol

[Crusty]

Ummmm....errrr...I had my moments before I met Mrs Crusty in 1978!!

[kiwi]

Well yes I guessed it was all pre Mrs Crusty LMAO