Volunteers : Steve and Margaret Gordon, Canada, November 2012
We traveled to Hippo Haven in early October. The temperatures at this time of year can be very high and Karen does not like to expose out of shape volunteers to this type of weather, but because of my declining mobility she granted us a special gift. We had watched...
Raffle winner 2012 Teresa D’Amico New York, NY visits Turgwe Trust in July
Earlier this year I entered a raffle through the Turgwe Hippo Trust’s Facebook page, first prize being a 10-night stay at Hippo Haven located in the Save Valley Conservancy in Zimbabwe. Having already expressed an interest in volunteering there, needless to say I was...
Newsletter : May 2012
Reblogged from old website: This update for our website is long overdue but with all of this correspondence, I have to be careful that I don’t end up spending more time writing than actually physically being out in the bush with the hippos, and helping them in their...
Volunteer : Mirinda Thorpe from Australia, December/January 2012
HIPPO HAVEN – the name gives a slight indication into the nature of the place. A picture or expectations may be developed from hearing such a name, of which some may be true… though it cannot come close to giving a complete picture into life at Hippo...
Save some hippos for Christmas – published on Swindonlink, UK
Sarah Chilvers from Peatmoor is supporting the Turgwe Hippo Trust in Zimbabwe by posting out calendars produced to support the work of Karen Paolillo who set up a sanctuary and has been protecting wild hippos for twenty years. Sarah said, “Karen is an incredible...
Anniversary of 20 years of living with the Turgwe Hippos. 1990-2010
On October 7th we celebrated twenty years of living at Hippo Haven with these Turgwe Hippos. The 7th is my birthday, so we felt that arriving in the Lowveld of Zimbabwe on that day was an auspicious beginning. On the 7th of October, 2010 Antoinette, Jean-Roger’s...
Volunteer, Hazel Mitchison, Yorkshire U.K, visits Sept/October 2009
I have always been an animal lover, and as my sister has been a hippo parent for many years I was pleased to be able to meet Karen in 2006, at one of her talks in the UK. She really inspired me when she talked about the hippos, the problems with poaching and all the...
Volunteer : Kirsty Mitchison of UK – Aug 2009
I’ve been obsessed with hippos since I was a child. For my 21st birthday I asked to have an adopted hippo. My mum researched this on the internet and found various zoo options, which just put your name on a plaque and give you free entry to the zoo, but then came...
Volunteer : Cary Martin of UK, November 2007.
I’d listened to Karen’s lectures, read her newsletters, looked at the photographs and watched the DVD, but none of this had really prepared me for the feelings of sheer wonder that I felt when I first set eyes on a group of hippos lying nonchalantly in the...
Volunteers Bob van den Berg and Floor Singelaar of the Netherlands, July 2002
“Hi my lovelies, hello my beauties, Hi my lovelies, hello my beauties” is what Karen Paollillo repeats over and over again as we approach 18 representatives of Africa’s most dangerous animal species. From behind the Baobab tree we are slowly moving...
Newsletter August 2001
The photos shown here are of the hippos in their pool at the Chichindwi weir, where we initially used the sand pump back in May. The photos were taken in early July, one month after we had removed 2500 cubic meters of sand. As you can see there is a large wall of...You can Donate or Adopt a hippo
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