Fiesta Warinwa

Kilimanjaro Heartland Director
Namanga, Kenya

 

Fiesta Warinwa brings years of conservation experience to her duties as Director of AWF's Kilimanjaro Heartland. Warinwa helped bring an end to the excavation of a quarry in the Osupuko Conservancy, which lies in a significant wildlife corridor. The corridor is frequently used by wildlife that move from the Amboseli National Park, world-renowned for its magnificent elephant population, through the Chyulu Hills and on to Tsavo National Park, one of Kenya’s most popular and accessible parks. Taking swift action, Warinwa and AWF, along with a dozen other conservation groups and tourism investors in the area, formed a coalition to urge the private company to stop excavating the quarry. Their coalition petitioned Kenya’s High Court, which ordered the company to halt operations, leading the company to abandon its plans to blast on the conservancy.

Warinwa was also instrumental in organizing a recent wildlife census of the Kilimanjaro Heartland. AWF and other partners joined for this historic transboundary census, which was conducted by national park authorities in Kenya and Tanzania. Using the census results as a roadmap for its work in the Heartland, AWF is pursuing increased support to community scouts, continued support of the wildlife authorities on collaborative and improved law enforcement, and the initiation of cross-border carnivore monitoring.

> Read more about Warinwa's work in the Kilimanjaro Heartland.