May 29, 2017 | Blog, Karen's blog
Patrick Mavros luxury jewellery and sculptures are purchased by Royalty as well as anyone with a love of beautiful animal work. Patrick is a great friend to the Turgwe Hippo Trust. He is a Zimbabwean silversmith. Patrick is helping towards the sponsorship of this...
May 29, 2017 | Video Blog
This year superb rains after last years horrendous drought. What it means is it is not easy to find all 19 hippos at this moment as they have a lot of river to move around in. Here are 5 of the 19 featuring Kuchek, Tacha,BonBon,George, Relief and Surprise. They are...
Apr 17, 2017 | Video Blog
A rare albino Waterbuck calf I came across her at nearly dark and have called her Ghost. I managed to get really close to her to take the photos and in all my life here I have never seen such a pretty animal. I do so hope she survives predators, the sun, and...
Mar 26, 2017 | Video Blog
Happy Mothers’ day to all mothers. Hope you enjoy this little video. As you can see we now have a really huge Turgwe River. It went down again since I made this video but is now once more flowing fast and with depth again. All the hippos move out of the Turgwe when...
Mar 8, 2017 | Karen's blog
Patrick Mavros luxury jewellery and sculptures are purchased by Royalty as well as anyone with a love of beautiful animal work. Patrick is a great friend to the Turgwe Hippo Trust. He is a Zimbabwean silversmith. Patrick is helping towards the sponsorship of this...
Feb 10, 2017 | Blog, Karen's blog
Karen Paolillo “The Hippo Lady of Zimbabwe” will be giving a presentation and a slide show in London at the Royal Geographic Society, Ondaatje Theatre on 21st November, 2017. Door open at 6.30 – 10.30 pm. Talk begins at 7.30 pm. There will be a cash bar available one...
Jan 29, 2017 | Blog, Karen's blog
Patrick Mavros luxury jewellery and sculptures are purchased by Royalty as well as anyone with a love of beautiful animal work. Patrick is a great friend to the Turgwe Hippo Trust. He is a Zimbabwean silversmith. I am coming to the UK for a hippo talk and photo...
Jan 16, 2017 | Video Blog
The drought finally comes to a dramatic end & with it the need to feed the...
Jan 7, 2017 | Blog, Karen's blog
Old lady Abe and the bull Tembia, behind her feeding during the 2016 drought. Abe would never have survived without the help of all of the hippos supporters. She and all 19 hippos and 200 other wild animals thank you for having been there for them and wish you all...