Tsavo ecosystem (16,000 square miles (41,000 km2))
Services
Conservation
Key people
Nzioki Wa Makau (Chairman of the Board) Richard Moller (CEO) Stuart Herd Munira Bashir Pat Awori Conrad Thorpe
Website
tsavotrust.org
The Tsavo Trust is a non-profit wildlife conservation organisation, which covers Tsavo East National Park, Tsavo West National Park, and Chyulu Hills National Park in Kenya. The trust was founded by Nzioki Wa Makau (Chairman of the Board) and Richard Moller who is chief executive officer and an experienced bush pilot. The started aim of the trust is the protection of wildlife, especially African elephants, and the reduction of the ivory trade.[1][2] In June 2014, the Tsavo Trust came into the international spotlight when it announced the death of Kenya's iconic and most well-known elephant, Satao, killed by an ivory poacher with a poisoned arrow.[3][4][5][6]
The Tsavo ecosystem consists of 16,000 square miles (41,000 km2) or arid and semi arid land in southern Kenya. The national parks within this region are managed by Kenya Wildlife Service. Around the parks, but within the Tsavo ecosystem, are a number of small towns, villages, ranches, and farms. Contained in this system is the largest population of African elephants in Kenya, numbering 14,964 as of 2021.[7]
There are a number of critical issues in the Tsavo ecosystem which include: a high rate of poverty among the people in the region, poor access to education and healthcare, degradation of habitat, ethnic conflict over resources, loss of wildlife, and lack of financial and technical resources to deal with these issues. In this context, the stated mission of the Tsavo Trust is to (1) to safeguard biodiversity and empower communities in the greater Tsavo ecosystem. Tsavo Trust does this by being a crucial partner to the Kenya Wildlife Service,providing support for aerial and ground biodiversity monitoring, anti-poaching and security operations, and attracting funding to the TCA.
Tsavo Trust is also pioneering the establishment of community conservancies in the Tsavo ecosystem (outside of the Taita-Taveta Ranches[8]), providing much needed community development benefits and increasing the habitat available for wildlife.
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stand that Taita Taveta county must get a bigger share of revenue from Tsavo National Park. The park is the largest wildlife conservation area in Kenya...
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depicting a fictionalized account of the Tsavo man-eaters, a pair of male lions that terrorized workers in and around Tsavo, Kenya during the building of the...
primarily hunts at night in most areas. In western African forests and Tsavo National Park, they have also been observed hunting by day. They usually...
deaths for each mile of track laid) and the project was notorious for the Tsavo maneaters. Once the railway was completed, some of these labourers voluntarily...
assisted in research on plains animals and elephant feeding behavior in Tsavo National Park, and became an editor for the newsletter of the African Wildlife...
Africa, Azito Energy. The project's counterpart in Kenya, is Mombasa’s Tsavo Power plant. In neighbouring Uganda, the agency is working to establish...
after the death of her husband David Sheldrick, the anti-poaching warden of Tsavo National Park. Nairobi National Park is sometimes called Kifaru Ark, which...
ISBN 978-1-932846-11-9. Hamilton, P. H. (1976). The Movements of Leopards in Tsavo National Park, Kenya as Determined by Radio-tracking (PhD). Nairobi: University...
investment vehicle through which the group has invested in the equity of Tsavo Power Company Limited that generates electricity for sale. Bujagali Holding...
firearms or hunting weapons. Safaris in wildlife refuges such as the two Tsavo National Parks were limited afterward to photography. The kidnapping of...
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