The future of elephants is of critical importance to the Government of Kenya for several reasons. Elephants are beheld a species of conservation concern with numbers continue reducing mainly as a consequence of trade in ivory and habitat loss. In Kenya, the elephant population declined from around 167,000 in 1973 to just 16,000 in 1990. According to African Elephant data base of the African Elephant Specialist Group 2013 Kenya has 24,000 elephants, this number could be less than 24,000 considering the poaching crises in 2014-2016 and few cases this year that include Laikipia wildlife massacre.
I have been on the grass-root elephant campaign walk from Nairobi- Mt. Kenya- Meru and now in Samburu, listening to communities living with elephants and there is a lot of conservation clamor. During the time I was joining the conservation in late 90’s I found various big EU and USAID funded projects like COBRA “Conservation of Biodiversity Resource Areas. http://elephantcenter.org/community-conservation-model-in-kenya-on-trial/
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