KENYA

BORN FREE KENYA

Animals: lions / rhinos / elephants / primates / turtles / giraffes

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

Work: conservation

Tracking and monitoring lions, working with communities to nurture tolerance and implement mitigation measures to reduce human-wildlife conflict. Supported by Born Free since 2014.

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 people and carnivores. Construction of smart bomas is a cost-effective approach to protecting livestock from predation at night.

PRIDE OF AMBOSELI

SAVING MERU'S GIANTS

Animals: elephants / giraffes

Work: conservation

Monitoring the elephant and giraffe populations, and understanding the threats they face, will enable us to initiative
nature-based solutions to human-wildlife conflict, and promote coexistence across the landscape.

ELEPHANT CONSERVATION   GIRAFFE CONSERVATION

RHINO CONSERVATION 

Animals: black/white rhino

Work: conservation

With funding and equipment from Born Free, Kenya Wildlife Service rangers carry out daily monitoring and patrols of the black and white rhino population in the Rhino Sanctuary, Meru National Park, Kenya. 

RHINO CONSERVATION