Karen Paolillo | Turgwetrust.org - we save wild hippos

New Baby Hippo Naming Draw – May 2020

May 8, 2020 | Blog, Karen's blog

Please enter the draw below so that you have a chance to win and name the new baby hippo. Send us a male and a female name and once we know the sex of the baby we will choose the name from the winning ticket. Your donation for this draw helps the Turgwe Hippo Trust...

New : Perpetual Auction on FaceBook to help the Turgwe Trust

Sep 17, 2019 | Blog, Karen's blog

Dear All a wonderful couple David and Jayne Shephard of the UK have just set up this auction page on facebook to help with feeding the hippos and other animals this year and with other needs for the Turgwe Hippo Trust in the future. Please go on to the page and either...

Bonbon hippo eating the food at night

Sep 3, 2019 | Blog, Karen's blog

So impressed with BonBon hippo. I started putting food out for them for this localized drought on Saturday. They are just under one mile from where I put the food but it is in the same place as I laid it out in 2016. 3 years later darling BonBon arrived...

Baby hippos playing. Banky and BonBon, March 2014

Mar 19, 2014 | Karen's blog

Wednesday 19th March. Some happy photos for you of Banky hippo playing with his friend BonBon. Banky is still a baby and suckling milk; he turned a year old last November. BonBon had just finished suckling and she turns three years of age this April. I went down to...

New Turgwe Hippo Trust merchandise, BonBon and Maxie ornament

Feb 16, 2014 | Karen's blog

All hippo collectors and foster parents of BonBon and Maxie hippos see the new ornaments that my friend Suzie Marsh has just finished. Her animal sculptures are bought by Royalty for recently Prince Harry purchased two of her elephant sculptures. Now you can buy her...

Exciting news : Karen Paolillo’s book to be published by Penguin South Africa- June 2014

Nov 19, 2013 | Featured, Karen's blog

Wonderful news. On WORLD ANIMAL DAY I signed a contract with Penguin publishers South Africa for my book “working title” A HIPPO LOVE STORY-TURGWE HIPPO TRUST to be published. They expect it out by June 2nd. I will keep everyone up to date. The link to...

Squiggle – Slender mongoose written by Laura Simpson, Harmony Fund USA

Nov 19, 2013 | Karen's blog

There’s never an ‘ordinary’ day in the life of raising a baby mongoose. Just ask Karen Paolillo, Founder of the Turgwe Hippo Trust. Since Karen began hand rearing an orphaned Slender mongoose named Squiggle at her home in Zimbabwe, there have been waves of laughter...

Volunteers : Steve and Margaret Gordon, Canada, November 2012

Nov 19, 2012 | Karen's blog

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

Aug 19, 2012 | Featured, Karen's blog

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...

Volunteer : Mirinda Thorpe from Australia, December/January 2012

Jan 19, 2012 | Featured, Karen's blog

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...