By Jacqueline Kubania | May 26, 2021
About the Author
Jacqueline Kubania is African Wildlife Foundation’s Manager, Field Communications. She joined AWF in 2018 after spending five years at Nation Media Group, East Africa’s largest media house, and specialized in the in-depth reporting of everyday stories, with a bias towards the cross-section of . More
To collar a lion, you first have to find it. And anyone who has gone on safari will tell you that you could drive around a park for an entire week and see every species except this highly elusive big cat.
But why do we need to fix these GPS-enabled gadgets on lions? Collaring is an effective way to track lion movement and mitigate human-wildlife conflict where lions exist close to human settlements. The collars send real-time location updates to park authorities who can warn communities about the presence of lions in the vicinity and deploy wildlife officers or community conservancy scouts to respond to any incidents immed
Carbon Offsets Can Really Make a Difference Here’s How AFAR 2 hrs ago
Photo by Adrián Portugal
The Alto Mayo Protected Forest has seen much human encroachment, but money from carbon credits is funding alternative projects.Carbon offsets are a complicated and often misunderstood proposition. They’re no substitute for reducing our carbon emissions at the source. As Kimberly Nicholas insists in the must-read
Under the Sky We Make: How to Be Human in a Warming World a book that combines unassailable facts with personal anecdotes and a plan for action the best way to reduce our individual footprints is to go flight-, car-, and meat-free.
March 15, 2021 Researchers recorded wildlife roadkill in the Tsavo Conservation Area over an 11-year period from 2007 to 2018.
The Tsavo Conservation Area along the Mombasa-Nairobi highway in Kenya is a hub of biodiversity in the region, containing multiple national parks in the eastern part of the country. It is also bisected by a major highway and railways that connect the port of Mombasa to the interior area.
Heliyon, researchers from the University of Minnesota and Kenya Wildlife Service recorded wildlife roadkill in the Tsavo Conservation Area over an 11-year period from 2007 to 2018 providing the first major assessment of direct mortality of animal species along Kenya’s primary infrastructure corridor. The area was intriguing as one of the largest protected areas in Kenya and a stronghold of the country’s elephant population.
Found mostly outside protected areas, giraffes in Tsavo face habitat loss and poaching. AWF works with communities to conserve threatened giraffe populations and habitat.