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Community updates

The work of the community team is aimed at increasing the understanding
and appreciation of the roles of predators in the Mara ecosystem and closely
working with communities to design and implement human wildlife conflict
mitigation strategies.

In their continued efforts of reducing the instances of human wildlife conflict, the
community team built an additional four Recycled Plastic Predator-Proof Bomas
in areas that had been identified as conflict hot-spots. The team also carried
out anti-poisoning campaigns in 14 markets spreading the message about the
dangers of wildlife poisoning.

The wildlife clubs supported by the community team made significant
achievements in 2019. The number of schools supported increased from six
to nine. For the first time ever, the team organised a Wildlife Clubs’ open
day where all the club members were brought together to celebrate the
achievements of the clubs for the past five years. The club members had an
opportunity to make presentations and share their experiences on wildlife
conservation.

As part of imparting conservation education beyond the classroom level, MPCP
organized a trip to Lewa Wildlife Conservancy for 45 members of the wildlife
clubs from the nine schools. The children were accompanied by their club
patrons and MPCP’s Community Outreach Officer. The trip gave the learners an
opportunity to learn about how conservation works in the north of Kenya while
at the same time seeing some of the wildlife species that are not found in Mara.

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