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 Haven, for...
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 woman...
Nov. 2011 – Heron chicks, baby monkeys, Kudo and hippo family
Karen shows us a Green-backed Heron nest with chicks, Vervet monkeys with babies playing. Also some Kudu and the Mystery hippo family.
Volunteers Chris and Neve Wade from Australia visit Hippo Haven, October 2011
My 14 year old daughter and I spent 17 days volunteering at Hippo Haven in Sept and Oct 2011. In the end volunteering was the wrong word as we both felt very much a part of the extended family and it was very hard to leave. We were also lucky enough to share 3...
Newsletter : 2011 Turgwe Hippo Trust
The Trust had just under 70 people visit the hippos during 2011. An increase in visitors thanks to the security situation having calmed down. These people came from the UK, Denmark, Sweden, Tanzania, Australia, Zimbabwe, USA, Germany, Switzerland and Latvia....
Karen Paolillo Interview with ‘Safaritalk’ – Nov 2010
We have been interviewed by SafariTalk and that's what they wrote on their website : http://safaritalk.net/topic/5960-karen-paolillo-the-turgwe-hippo-trust/ ---oOo--- The Turgwe Hippo Trust is a non-profit organisation for the protection of the Turgwe Hippos in the...
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...
Some Humour from Dr Jean-Roger Paolillo August 2001
Had I not looked over my shoulder at that very second, the crowned eagle would have broken my neck. This feeling that someone is looking at you... Well, it does exist! Wings wide open, talons extended, my head was the target. I know, because it was the only part of my...
Volunteer : Jenny Cookson-Teall, UK, August 2010
My love for hippos began in 1991 when I saw the Silentnight hippo and duck advert on TV and the soft toys they produced. For those of you who haven’t seen it, they show the hippo lying on the bed in sexy blue stripped PJ’s, next to a very small yellow duck. The bed...