Nairobi (TAN): The TUI Care Foundation and the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) have joined hands to stop poaching of elephants in Tsavo Conservation Area of Kenya. The Tsavo Conservation Area is one of Kenya’s most visited tourism destinations and home to approximately 12,850 African elephants.
The two organizations have formulated a blueprint to use technology systematic data processing systems and intelligence to implement the initiative.
Through IFAW’s wildlife security initiative ‘tenBoma’, both government and community rangers are trained to better predict and respond to threats while also protecting the animals and local communities.
In partnership with Kenya Wildlife Service and Tsavo Trust, the initiative train 130 Kenya Wildlife Service and community rangers who then help to prevent poaching and human-elephant conflict.
The authorities provide community rangers with communications and mobility equipment such as GPS, smartphones, radios and more to be able to gather information swiftly so as to be able to intercept poachers and reach areas where humans can come into conflict with the jumbos that have strayed into crop fields.
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“The success of IFAW’s tenBoma approach relies on our ability to incorporate traditional knowledge from communities into a system of modern methods and technology,” Faye Cuevas, senior vice president at IFAW, said in a statement.
“TUI Care Foundation has made it possible for us to provide urgently needed equipment to community rangers such as mobile devices, cameras and boots so they can collect information on potential threats to wildlife and people.”
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