Conservation and Management Strategy for the Elephant in Kenya

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
First, we thank the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) Director, Julius Kipng’etich and
KWS Board of Trustees for approving this as a priority activity amongst the core
business of KWS.
Conservation and
Management Strategy
for the Elephant
in Kenya
2012-2021
© Kenya Wildlife Service
Frontcover:
Plate 1. African Elephant.
Samantha Roberts, Zoological
Society of London
[ TOP ] Plate 2.
Beehive fence. Lucy King,
Save the Elephants
[ BOTTOM ] Plate 3.
KWS veterinary team taking
tissue samples during a collaring
exercise - Charles Ooro, Kenya
Wildlife Service
We also sincerely thank Keith Lindsay, Winnie Kiiru and Noah Sitati for preparing
the background information and facilitating the eleven consultative
stakeholder-workshops that were held across the country. This ensured the
views of as many stakeholders as possible were accommodated into this
strategy document. Special thanks to all the stakeholders of the final strategy
development workshop, held at Mpala Research Centre, Nanyuki, which
included representatives from United Republic of Tanzania; Uganda Government
and the Government of Southern Sudan that finally formulated this National
Elephant Management and Conservation Strategy. Our sincere gratitude also to
the following individuals for reviewing the first draft : Munira Anyonge Bashir,
Julian Blanc, Holly Dublin, Francis Gakuya, Ian Douglas-Hamilton, Ben Kavu,
Juliet King, Lucy King, Margaret Kinnaird, Ben Okita, Lamin Seboko, Noah Sitati,
Diane Skinner, Richard Vigne and David Western.
We are greatly indebted to the following institutions for funding the formulation
of this strategy : Born Free Foundation; CITES MIKE Programme; Darwin Initiative
/ CETRAD; KWS; People’s Trust for Endangered Species; Tusk Trust; United States
Fish and Wildlife Service; World Wildlife Fund (EARPO) and Zoological Society of
London (ZSL). ZSL is also sincerely thanked for its technical support.
Renaud Fulconis, Max Graham, Iain Douglas-Hamilton, Lucy King, Richard Kock,
Grover Larkins, Moses Litoroh, Cynthia Moss, Charles Ooro, Joyce Poole and
Samantha Roberts are thanked for the use of the images. Finally, Linda DaVolls,
Joy Jolly, Laura Murray and Lydia Tiller of ZSL are specially thanked for the
proof-reading of this document.
Backcover:
Plate 1. African Elephant.
Samantha Roberts, Zoological
Society of London
[ TOP ] Plate 42.
Dr. Dominic Mijele, KWS
vet darting an elephant from
a KWS helicopter in Narok,
Mara Ecosystem - Charles Ooro,
Kenyan Wildlife Service
[ BOTTOM ] Plate 43.
A KWS ranger learning
to identify individual elephants
- Max Graham, Space for Giants