Wildlife conservation research

To be developed with the participation of government entities, scientific researchers, students and volunteers.

  • Provide realistic data on the wildlife population and its habitat; determine elephant migration routes.
  • Provide water for elephants and other wildlife by creating or rebuilding water points in the savannah to keep them away from village.
  • Strengthen anti-poaching operations (training of scouts; anti-poaching canine unit).
  • Develop with the community appropriate techniques to mitigate conflicts between humans and wildlife.

Community Development

Development of microenterprises for women, pillars of the community.

Help women create and manage sustainable and environmentally friendly businesses that allow them to diversify their incomes while conserving natural resources.

  • Management and development of their granary

A granary financed by Terre et Faune has been built to allow women to store their cereals and produce flour that they can also market.

  • Apiculture

Establishing beehive fences to keep elephants away from the fields.

Beekeeping training for women’s groups:

Teach them beekeeping skills, provide them with modern and more productive hives and equipment for harvesting and processing honey, teach them how to market honey, support them in monitoring the management of beehives fences.

This will have the multiple benefit of generating income, pollinating fields, conserving forests and repelling elephants, thus protecting them from problems with the population and the risk of being killed.

  • Ecotourism Initiatives

Development of Maasai festivals and workshops organized by Maasai women in the boma they built near the center to introduce visitors to their culture and crafts.

Habitat restoration

  • KRC Tree Planting Project

Establishment of a nursery that will serve as a seedling production site and training station for community members to encourage them to invest in tree replanting projects in areas bare by various human activities. In addition to climate improvement, this initiative will reduce their dependence on natural forests for firewood and housing construction.

  • Training in environmentally friendly farming practices.
  • Support habitat restoration for elephants and other wildlife

Veterinary dispensary

Better livestock management, involving a limited number of animals and adequate veterinary care, will generate more productive herds and reduce economic dependence on natural resources. Vaccination and deworming of livestock will also prevent disease transmission between wild animals and domestic animals that share the same grazing areas.

With the collaboration of local district veterinarians, veterinarians who are members of Terre et Faune association, our Swiss partners, and foreign volunteer experts, the KRC team plans to set up a veterinary dispensary at the center.

  • Supply of basic veterinary medicine.
  • Vaccination campaigns.
  • Training of farmers in veterinary health and animal care.
  • Education for the use of new agricultural and livestock techniques adapted to climate change.

Education

Education of the population through successive trainings, workshops, symposia, seminars and film screenings.

Environmental education for children, youth and village chiefs

  • Creation of school nature clubs.
  • School tree planting program.
  • Workshops on wildlife and environmental protection.
  • Study tours at reasonable costs, accompanied by experts, for school groups and village chiefs to teach new conservation techniques.
  • Organization of an annual conservation day in schools and villages.

 

Health education

Organization of trainings and seminars on hygiene, common causes of diseases and their prevention, protection during sexual intercourse, contraception, prevention of early marriage and female genital mutilation.