BORN FREE KENYA
Animals: lions / rhinos / elephants / primates / turtles
Work: welfare & captivity / conservation / education / policy
Managed by: Born Free
Protecting wild animals while working with local communities and partners to raise awareness and change attitudes by mitigating human-wildlife conflict. Informing policies, to ensure a safe and thriving future for Kenya’s magnificent wildlife.
AMBOSELI NATIONAL PARK
Animals: elephants
Work: conservation / education
As the world’s longest-running study of wild African elephants, research from the project continues to provide valuable insights into the behaviour, intelligence, social structure and communication of African elephants.
MOUNT ELGON ELEPHANT MONITORING TEAM
Animals: elephants
Supported since: 2001
Work: conservation
Protecting and monitoring a herd of elephants in the Mount Elgon region.
MOUNT KENYA PROJECT
Animals: a diverse range of wildlife, with a focus on elephants
Supported since: 1999
Work: conservation / education
Protecting Mount Kenya’s unique ecosystem of forests and Afroalpine moorlands, and the wildlife they contain. Working with local communities to minimise human-wildlife conflict, develop education programmes and create an elephant ‘corridor’ between Mount Kenya's forest and the Ngare Ndare forest reserve after the original area was taken over by agriculture.
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MERU LION HERITAGE PROJECT
Animals: lions
Supported since: 2014
Work: conservation
Tracking and monitoring lions; deploying de-snaring teams and working with communities to nurture tolerance and implement mitigation measures to reduce human-wildlife conflict.
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PRIDE OF AMBOSELI
Animals: lions / leopards / hyenas
Work: conservation
To reduce conflict (loss of livestock and retaliatory killings of lions) and promote co-existence between humans and carnivores. Construction of ‘Smart Bomas’, is a cost-effective approach to protecting livestock from predation at night.
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