Okay, maybe that title is a little bold... but she has more than done her bit though. Ex Quest Overseas Africa director Lucy King has been working on a method of protecting both elephants and local farms in Kenya, as part of her PhD study. After discovering that elephants are scared of bees, they have started to construct fences around local plantations with bee hives incorporated in them. This stops the elephants from breaking into the plantations and devouring all their crops, and also means that local farmers don't resort to shooting trespassing elephants - everyone's a winner.
Her work has had international acclaim, with National Geographic Magazine, BBC wildlife and most impressively Have I Got News for You (!) all having featured her work recently.
You can read an article on the BBC website with more detail on her work here
Well done King, we're proud of you!
04-Jun-09 12:30
Lucy King single-handedly saves the Elephants!
30-Jan-09 14:03
World's Highest Cricket Game - Been there done that!
On 21st April this year, a team of cricketers will journey to the Himalayas to take part in the highest cricket game on record. They will play at around 5,100m at Gorak Shep - the last stop on the way up to Everest Base Camp and the stunning Everest viewpoint of Kala Patthar.
It may well be the highest official game on record but unofficially they have been beaten to it! In August 2006, 20 students from Durham University including myself, trekked up to Everest Base Camp and Kala Patthar to raise money for the Durham University Charities Kommittee (DUCK) and to sponsor two Nepali children through school with the charity Future For Nepal. The 12 day trek was made complete with...you guessed it...a cricket bat and ball - for the obligatory, and quintessentially English, high altitude game at Gorak Shep. We even have the photos to prove it!
It may well be the highest official game on record but unofficially they have been beaten to it! In August 2006, 20 students from Durham University including myself, trekked up to Everest Base Camp and Kala Patthar to raise money for the Durham University Charities Kommittee (DUCK) and to sponsor two Nepali children through school with the charity Future For Nepal. The 12 day trek was made complete with...you guessed it...a cricket bat and ball - for the obligatory, and quintessentially English, high altitude game at Gorak Shep. We even have the photos to prove it!
So good luck to the 22 participants of April's game. Lets hope as the hit themselves into the record books they listen out for the fading echoes of the DUCK team's soft whack of tennis ball on plastic (!).
See the BBC article here
29-Jan-09 16:52
Zimbabwe dollar no more?
Over the last two years the Zim dollar has seen an unprecedented billion percent inflation. Recently a $100 trillion dollar note was introduced and last year ten, yes ten zeros were slashed. This has caused chaos in a country that is already suffering. It has meant people struggle to buy food as their money becomes worthless over a few days. Imagine paying for your bus ticket to work with a whole wheel barrow of cash!
At Victoria Falls you can purchase a variety of billion dollar a notes for as little as one US dollar. The notes even have a use by date on them.
An announcement by the finance minister Mr Chinamasa to allow both licensed and unlicensed Zimbabwe business to conduct transactions in foreign currency could stabilise the situation.
29-Jan-09 16:04
28-Jan-09 15:02
Toast has arrived in the Quest office!
That's right, after 5 months of being deprived of one of the nations favourite breakfasts the Quest office can now make toast! The XB8133 Kuhn Rikon can take up to 4 slices of thickly sliced bread at once and has a crumb tray and reheating function.
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