Wonder Women Save Wild Baboon
With the agreement of Laura Simpson (the author of the lines below), here is a reprint of a wonderful post published by Care2 on their blog. Visit our friends at and the original post is here. We already knew Karen has a passion for hippos but reality is even greater...
Baboons Having Fun April 2016
Chacma Baboons...
Kids from Southwell Shool (NZ) adopted 3 Hippos
The Turgwe Hippo Trust have had very special help this April from 18 children aged 6 to 7 years. They are in class 2 at Southwell School, in Hamilton, New Zealand. These 7 little girls and 11 little boys had a bake off and they have raised enough monies to help 3...
Rocksie The Baboon March 2016
This is a film about a little baboon with a rather strange behaviour, collecting rocks. Filmed and narrated by Karen Paolillo of The Turgwe Hippo Trust,...Urgent Food Appeal for Starving Hippos & Animals – Update March 2016
Karen sent this update on the current situation of feeding the animals. Read this update on line or download the pdf here.
Lizzie the Lizard Buzzard Feb 2016
This video shows a rescued Lizard Buzzard called Lizzie on her road to...
Africa Geographic : Hooray for hippos
Africa Geographic just published an awesome post about hippos on the blog. Please visit urgently their blog at this address We are rebloging their first page, mentioning Karen and her passion for saving hippos in the Turgwe River. Like many large mammals...
Urgent Need for Help : Severe Drought
Dear Friends We are in a state of emergency as our rains appear to have failed. Normally our rains begin middle of November and finish by late April. To date we have only had six days where we had rain with a total of just over 5 inches (125mm). We need your help, any...
Hippos in the Drought Jan 2016
This video shows the efforts that the Turgwe Hippo Trust are making to keep the hippos fed during the current ongoing...
Africa Geographic : The hippos in the drought
Africa Geographic has just released a new post on their blog. Their original post is published at AfricaGeographic.com/blog/the-hippos-in-the-drought. The post was written by Karen. I have lived through two droughts in the south-east Lowveld of Zimbabwe,...You can Donate or Adopt a hippo
Oephebia, our friend and artist loves the book
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Annie’s book at Peregrin Queensland, Australia book review
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Femme LifeStyle (UK) reviewed our book
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Se7en quoted Karen’s book
The book can now be purchased on line Internationally at www.kalahari.com or with a personal dedication on my website.
Full review on Se7en's site.
Bush-bound Girl loves our book
Full review from Bush-bound girl at bush-bound Girl website .
Our friends at Twala Trust
Turgwe Hippo Trust believes in Sarah Carter's vision of loving animals and the new Twala Trust Animal Sanctuary of Zimbabwe.
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