National Elephant Strategy - People's Trust for Endangered Species

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSFirst, we thank the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) Director, Julius Kipng’etich andKWS Board of Trustees for approving this as a priority activity amongst the corebusiness of KWS.Conservation andManagement Strategyfor the Elephantin Kenya2012-2021© Kenya Wildlife ServiceFrontcover:Plate 1. African Elephant.Samantha Roberts, ZoologicalSociety of London[ TOP ] Plate 2.Beehive fence. Lucy King,Save the Elephants[ BOTTOM ] Plate 3.KWS veterinary team takingtissue samples during a collaringexercise - Charles Ooro, KenyaWildlife ServiceBackcover:Plate 1. African Elephant.Samantha Roberts, ZoologicalSociety of London[ TOP ] Plate 42.Dr. Dominic Mijele, KWSvet darting an elephant froma KWS helicopter in Narok,Mara Ecosystem - Charles Ooro,Kenyan Wildlife Service[ BOTTOM ] Plate 43.A KWS ranger learningto identify individual elephants- Max Graham, Space for GiantsWe also sincerely thank Keith Lindsay, Winnie Kiiru and Noah Sitati for preparingthe background information and facilitating the eleven consultativestakeholder-workshops that were held across the country. This ensured theviews of as many stakeholders as possible were accommodated into thisstrategy document. Special thanks to all the stakeholders of the final strategydevelopment workshop, held at Mpala Research Centre, Nanyuki, whichincluded representatives from United Republic of Tanzania; Uganda Governmentand the Government of Southern Sudan that finally formulated this NationalElephant Management and Conservation Strategy. Our sincere gratitude also tothe 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 formulationof this strategy : Born Free Foundation; CITES MIKE Programme; Darwin Initiative/ CETRAD; KWS; People’s Trust for Endangered Species; Tusk Trust; United StatesFish and Wildlife Service; World Wildlife Fund (EARPO) and Zoological Society ofLondon (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 andSamantha 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 theproof-reading of this document.[ RIGHT ] Plate 5.Chilli bush used by some farmers to scare away elephants in Laikipi- Lucy King, Save the Elephants[ BOTTOM ] Plate 6.Adult female with young calf, Samburu National Reserve, Kenya- Renaud Fulconis. Awely, Wildlife and People