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L’aire de conservation de Tsavo au Kenya abrite l’unique population d’éléphants du pays ainsi que des communautés indigènes comme les Massaïs, qui cohabitent avec les pachydermes depuis des millénaires. Cependant, en raison de l’augmentation du braconnage, qui constitue l’un des crimes internationaux les plus lucratifs, les animaux et les humains se retrouvent dans une situation critique et désespérée. La TUI Care Foundation soutient actuellement une initiative qui intègre les connaissances traditionnelles des communautés dans un système de méthodes et de technologies modernes en vue de stopper le braconnage avant qu’il ne se produise. Le projet fournit également un équipement dernier cri aux rangers locaux et contribue à la diminution des incidents liés au conflit entre les humains et les éléphants dans l’aire de conservation de Tsavo.

With an area of roughly 42.000km2, similar to the size of the Netherlands, the Tsavo Conservation Area is Kenya’s largest national park and one of the top tourist destinations in the country. Approximately 12,850 elephants live in this area including one third of the remaining “Big Tuskers”, a species that is known for its gigantic tusks that can reach the ground. However, all elephants in the area are facing serious mortal threats caused by the increasing demand for ivory, the complexity of poaching and trafficking networks.

Apart from the wildlife, the area is also home to numerous local communities who often face raids by elephants endangering crops, livestock and even human lives. Such circumstances lead to angry and desperate farmers who try to fend off elephants.

The TUI Care Foundation has joined forces with the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) to stop poaching of wild elephants before it happens and prevent human-elephant conflict in the Tsavo Conservation Area of Kenya. Through IFAW’s innovative ‘tenBoma’ wildlife security initiative, both government and community rangers are trained to better predict and respond to threats, protecting both animals and local communities.

Through this partnership, 130 rangers and members of the Kenya Wildlife Service and Tsavo Trust are being coached to develop skills in collecting, processing and analysing information. This includes forensics and evidence gathering training.

High-tech analysis using smartphones, computers and satellites is combined with this information (which could also include the detection of unknown cars or smoke from an open fire, for which local communities are a key primary source of information), stores it in a database and then shares it with field teams who can investigate and take appropriate action. This innovative approach results in combating poaching and human-elephant conflict in an effective and proactive way while creating a safe and resilient environment for the communities.

As part of the project, human-wildlife conflict management meetings are regularly conducted, helping local communities express their concerns and come up with common solutions for a peaceful coexistence with the surrounding wildlife. A reporting channel linking six different villages has also been developed to exchange information across communities for conflict management and poaching threats alerting.

Moses Merin, a Maasai working in the community outreach programme, explains: “Those trained and employed as community rangers come from the communities we work with. This way they directly see the benefit of protecting wildlife.” Moses adds, “A lot of valuable information for the protection of wildlife we receive from women and their kids, but we also engage morans [younger, unmarried male members of the warrior group of the Maasai] so they can all see the benefit of these developments and spread the word in their communities when they come back.”

Partenaire du projet

L’International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) est une organisation mondiale à but non lucratif qui aide les animaux et les humains à prospérer ensemble. Nous sommes des experts et des gens ordinaires qui travaillons à travers les mers et les océans et dans plus de 40 pays du monde. Nous sauvons des animaux, les réinsérons et les remettons en liberté, et nous restaurons et protégeons leur habitat naturel. Les problèmes auxquels nous faisons face sont urgents et complexes. Pour les résoudre, nous allions des idées innovantes et des mesures audacieuses. Nous établissons des partenariats avec des communautés locales, des gouvernements, des organisations non gouvernementales et des entreprises. Ensemble, nous imaginons des façons nouvelles et novatrices pour aider toutes les espèces à s’épanouir. Apprenez-en plus sur le site ifaw.org.

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