We train and support community scouts and anti-poaching teams from Tsavo West National Park, Mkomazi National Park, and the Tanzania Wildlife Management Authority. Rangers and scouts conduct joint and concurrent patrols along the border, guided by GIS-based tools we’ve supplied. With better information-sharing, patrolling rangers and scouts are more effective at targeting and deterring illegal activity.

We work with government partners to help ensure wildlife crime is appropriately prosecuted. Efforts include an innovative court-monitoring program, in which we provide logistical and technical support to often overburdened prosecutors, preventing wildlife cases from slipping through the cracks. We also support ranger forces through training in wildlife law, crime investigation, and evidence handling and storage.

In one of the Maasai giraffe’s last strongholds, we are implementing a science-based conservation action plan to support giraffe populations and benefit communities.

The demand for firewood, agricultural land, and pasture for livestock threatens this landscape, which includes densely forested hills and rangelands. We work with community conservancies and group ranches to restore forests and lands that are home to elephants, lions, buffalo, leopards, wild dogs, and other species.