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Continued operational support to human-elephant conflict (HEC) mitigation and livelihood protection by government and Space for Giants mobile teams that monitor incidents, provide security as well as elephants drives using helicopters that push elephants back to the right side of electric fences.
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Situation
HEC is an enormous challenge in rural Africa. Laikipia County supports approximately 42% of Kenya’s second-largest African elephant population. To date, Space for Giants has constructed and maintained 144 km of electric fences, collared 63 elephants to understand and monitor movement patterns. Despite the project’s success, elephants continue to identify weaknesses in fence alignment, break through and crop raid, resulting in enormous economic losses and threatening peoples and elephants' lives.
Solution
1.In 2020, we established a specialist HEC team of government personnel to manage and monitor human-elephant conflict along key sections of the West Laikipia Elephant Fence between conservancies and community land. 2.Space for Giants employs motorbike-based scouts who gather vital data for action to be taken to help reduce conflict between wildlife and communities. 3.Undertake elephant “drives” to push crop-raiding elephants from the “wrong” side of the fence back into the nearby conservancies.
