DAVID NGANGA WAITHAKA

David was born in 1976 and is married with one daughter.   He is well trained in Range Management at Animal Health and Industrial Training Institute Kabete, as such he's been tested and proved competent in range development policy, range pastures, range ecology, wildlife conservation, range research, range development and planning. He is conversant with animal health and production, anatomy and physiology, zoology parasitology, soils science, microbiology, immunology and vaccines, infertility and neonatal diseases, bacterial and fugal diseases.  

He is also familiar with Protected Areas Management, Wildlife Policy, Law and Professional ethics, public education and extension, Wildlife Behavioural Ecology, Wildlife Population Dynamics, Ornithology, Range and Ranch management, Field Planning of Protected Areas, Eco-tourism and rural field sociology.

From 2001 to 2003 he worked at Kigio Wildlife Conservancy witnessing very successful translocation of the Rothschild's giraffes into the sanctuary from Lake Nakuru National Park.

Then from Sep 2003 to 2006 he worked at Mugie Wildlife Conservancy as an assistant officer in charge in monitoring black rhino. At Mugie he managed to train and became one of very few fully accredited Darwin (AFRSG) rhino monitoring instructors in Africa.

Since late 2006 to date, he is working as a professional safari ranger at Mara Bushtops, a five star tented camp in the Maasai Mara.

“black rhinoceros are my favorite of all the pachyderm”