KENYA

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.

AMBOSELI NATIONAL PARK

PRIDE OF MERU

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.

PRIDE OF MERU

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.

PRIDE OF AMBOSELI