TSAVO TRUST mid year newsletter June 2014

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mid year NEWSLETTER June 2014

TSAVO TRUST works to improve the safety of wildlife and people in

Kenya’s

expansive

Greater

Tsavo Ecosystem, the region’s most important protected area and home to Kenya’s largest population of elephants, currently endangered by ivory poaching and the global ramifications of wildlife crime.

THIS NEWSLETTER IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF SATAO A TSAVO ICON KILLED BY POISONED ARROW ON 30TH MAY 2014 Read our report

Overview: January - June 2014 Community Wildlife Conservancies: animals and people, thriving together TSAVO TRUST is a relatively new organization but we are not new to the task at hand.

Between us, we have one of the most experienced conservation, wildlife security, wild animal rehabilitation and sustainable development teams of any organization in Africa.

Work on our two Community Wildlife Conservancies, developed in partnership with the Orma and Wakamba people respectively, has started in earnest. These conservancies put into practice TSAVO TRUST’s philosophy of ‘Stabilization through Conservation’ by addressing physical, economic and ecological insecurity - the human factors that lead to poaching, environmental destruction and unsustainable natural resource use - ultimately creating areas that are conducive to the welfare of both humans and wildlife. In today’s world, wildlife conservation cannot be divorced from human need or the global implications of the illegal wildlife trade: terrorism, organized crime and small arms proliferation. In order to succeed, we understand that the people who are the guardians of Africa’s wild animals and wild places need to be directly involved with the management of these valuable natural assets and need to reap the rewards from protecting the wildlife with which they coexist on their own land.

Quick link: Meet the TSAVO TRUST team Now almost half way through our second year, we have much progress to report. In doing so, we would like to acknowledge the contribution of our donors and supporters, without whom none of our work would be possible.

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Wildlife Conservation: working inside the Tsavo National Parks Our Big Tusker Project continues to extend its scope, working alongside the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) to help provide extra protection for all Tsavo’s elephants, but with special emphasis on the region’s iconic ‘hundred pounder tuskers’. Tsavo is the last place on earth with a viable gene pool of these giants among giants. In addition to monitoring these enormous tuskers, our aerial unit provides support to KWS anti-poaching operations. We have now expanded this project to include a crucial ground follow-up capacity.

Following TSAVO TRUST’s success in helping to raise money last year in direct support of KWS antipoaching operations in the Tsavo region, these funds are now reaching the field and assisting KWS to fulfill its monumental task of protecting wildlife across the Tsavo East, Tsavo West and Chyulu Hills National Parks – an expanse the size of Israel.

The strategic importance of our Community Wildlife Conservancies forming concentric rings of security around the edge of these National Parks cannot be overemphasized in terms of supporting KWS conservation efforts and protecting Tsavo’s elephants both inside and outside the Parks.

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Malkahalaku Community Wildlife Conservancy TSAVO TRUST is developing the expansive Malkahalaku Community Wildlife Conservancy in partnership with the Orma people to whom the Conservancy and its ensuing benefits belong. TSAVO TRUST operates in a stewardship / mentoring role to help build the institutional capacity of the Orma Conservancy members.

The Conservancy is essentially a wildlife preserve, which is zoned to allow multiple land usage options, including cattle ranching, the traditional mainstay of the Orma people. Through effective management under TSAVO TRUST’s guidance, the Conservancy will prove that Orma cattle can co-exist with wildlife to mutual benefit, thereby incentivizing the Orma people to embrace wildlife conservation as a way of life alongside pastoralism while securing this wilderness for the future.

The Conservancy lies along the eastern flank of the greater Tsavo ecosystem and serves as a buffer against armed poaching gangs from nearby Somalia who not only poach elephant and rhino but bring with them extremist doctrine that is threatening to corrupt the youth. The Conservancy, with its employment opportunities and prospects for a better life, is offering people a viable alternative and a brighter future, thereby denying violent groups a fertile recruiting ground.

Through TSAVO TRUST’s philosophy of ‘Stabilization through Conservation’, actualized through Community Wildlife Conservancies, wildlife conservation can become the catalyst for enhanced security for people and wildlife, economic stabilization and sustainable natural resource use.

Poaching pressures on the Greater Tsavo Ecosystem

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TSAVO TRUST Program Coordinator, Ian Saunders, with Orma elders

TSAVO TRUST’s Ian Saunders and the co-founders of the Malkahalaku Conservancy convene a community meeting to discuss progress and plans

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Conservancy Chairman, Orma Chief Ibrahim

A momentous occasion: signing the registration papers for the new Malkahalaku Community Wildlife Conservancy in the village of Kone, near the boundary of Tsavo East National Park

Orma Chief Omar, while signing the registration papers for the new Conservancy

Malkahalaku Community Wildlife Conservancy: Progress Report • Multiple community meetings conducted, chaired by the Orma tribal Chiefs and TSAVO TRUST program coordinator Ian Saunders to ensure the Conservancy meets the needs of the constituent community members, as opposed to what their needs are perceived to be by external entities.

• Radio network under development: radios purchased and awaiting installation; antenna locations sited; radio rooms and accommodation being constructed using a labor force recruited from the local community; radio operators from Orma community to be recruited and trained. Radios to be programmed with two frequencies, creating two radio nets: one operational wildlife security net, the other a “community net” allowing Conservancy members to communicate across the vast expanse of their tribal lands for the first time ever, much as the telegraph system used to operate in the old West (there is no cell phone signal or Internet coverage in this remote region.)

• Registration of Conservancy as an official entity currently underway. The community has elected a committee who will manage the Conservancy, with TSAVO TRUST playing a stewardship role.

• Exposure tour to existing conservancies in northern Kenya conducted, to demonstrate the benefits and challenges involved in managing community wildlife conservancies, and demonstrating how cattle can be successfully run along wildlife, including large predators and mega-herbivores.

• Selection of 20 Conservancy wildlife rangers (scouts) in progress and awaiting training once Conservancy registration completed.

• Four wheel drive vehicles purchased and currently being adapted for long range operations into the remote Orma Conservancy area.

• Support from County Governor, Orma tribal Chiefs and constituent community secured.

• 100% of funding secured for radio communications network; initial funding secured for wildlife security unit (matching funding now required).

2014 Project Needs: Wildlife security (anti-poaching) unit - seeking matching funds • Anti-poaching / operations light aircraft - purchase and running costs

TSAVO TRUST exposure tour for nine Orma Conservancy committee members to Ol Pejeta and Northern Rangelands Trust conservancies

Kamungi Community Wildlife Conservancy Development of Kamungi Conservancy in partnership with the resident Wakamba people is now underway, spearheaded by TSAVO TRUST’s Richard Moller who has held a series of preliminary meetings with community members to get the project started and to ensure that as it develops, the Conservancy meets the aspirations of its constituent members.

With this project, TSAVO TRUST is pioneering a new type of Community Wildlife Conservancy which addresses the needs of a predominantly agriculturalist (as opposed to pastoralist) community. Other conservation organizations are already looking to TSAVO TRUST’s model as being a prototype for developing Community Wildlife Conservancies in other agricultural / heavily settled areas abutting National Parks. Due to the more convoluted land tenure issues in this area compared with the Malkahalaku [Orma] Conservancy, the registration of Kamungi Conservancy will be more complex, but already more than 50 families / homesteads have signed up for membership.

Richard took a group of ten community members on an exposure tour to established conservancies in northern Kenya - Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, Ol Pejeta Conservancy and the Northern Rangelands Trust. Projects of direct relevance to Kamungi Conservancy’s development were visited, such as intensive agriculture initiatives that could be replicated in farming areas bordering Tsavo. This tour has galvanized the Wakamba community who are now eager to start implementing the first phase of their own Conservancy.

The Kamungi Conservancy will be particularly important in helping to secure a currently porous border with Tsavo National Park and denying poisoned bow and arrow elephant poachers a much-used entry route (the Wakamba people have historically been bow and arrow hunters and some, lacking any alternative livelihood options, continue to do so). The Conservancy will also reduce illegal charcoal burning, logging and the rampant bushmeat trade, which is particularly prevalent in this section of the Park that abuts intensive human settlement. By offering viable and more beneficial alternatives for people to make a decent living, including well managed agriculture, ecotourism and other nature-based enterprises, the Conservancy will encourage its members to cease poaching and adopt lifestyle practices which are beneficial to the environment, to wildlife and ultimately to their own wellbeing.

2014 Project Needs: seed funding to develop phase one of the Conservancy • support for an anti-poaching unit Members of the Wakamba community assist in a rhino capture operation on Lewa Wildlife Conservancy and Ol Pejeta Conservancy during their exposure tour to existing conservancies [far left]; they also visited agricultural projects to learn about drip-feed irrigation and other farming techniques that can be replicated at Kamungi.

Kamungi Community Wildlife Conservancy will address the following conservation challenges [clockwise from top left]: bushmeat poaching on a commercial scale - here a poacher is seen with dozens of fresh dik dik carcasses, killed in a single night; illegal felling of trees and charcoal burning - this photo shows a live charcoal kiln; elephant poaching by poisoned bow and arrow. This old poacher shows the tools of his former trade. Contrary to popular opinion, bow and arrow poaching is still a much-used method for killing elephants in Tsavo.

Big Tusker Project

Led by TSAVO TRUST Chief Conservation Officer, Richard Moller, our Big Tusker Project continues to fulfill an important conservation role, not only monitoring the large bull elephants of Tsavo and maintaining a big tuskers database, but providing aerial back-up to KWS anti-poaching operations, ever more crucial as the rate of elephant poaching continues to escalate in the face of relentless demand for ivory from Far East nations. TSAVO TRUST has been generating monthly project reports since the inception of this project in February 2013, which are available to download from our website.

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JANUARY JUNE 2014 in figures

271 hours flown

19,637 miles covered

16 + 1

big tuskers monitored: 16 bulls + 1 cow

21

poachers’ blinds, hides & camps reported

61

elephant carcasses found

22

ivory tusks recovered jointly by KWS/Tsavo Trust

Big Tusker Project expansion a collaborative effort

Above: Kenya Wildlife Service Director General, William Kiprono, with Frank Pope from Save The Elephants and Tsavo Trust’s Richard Moller during the handover of a new anti-poaching vehicle to KWS.

TSAVO TRUST’s Big Tusker Project, which started out as an exclusively aerial monitoring/anti-poaching support initiative, is now being expanded to include a ground follow-up unit to work in support of the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS). A TSAVO TRUST vehicle (4-wheel-drive Toyota Land Cruiser pick-up) has been purchased (and another is on its way) specifically for this purpose. TSAVO TRUST collaborates with KWS in a supporting role to boost patrol numbers on the ground, locate elephant carcasses, determine the cause of death and recover tusks, as well as locating poachers’ platforms, hides, camps and illegal charcoal kilns, and assisting to patrol Tsavo’s rhino sanctuary and free release zones.

In partnership with Save The Elephants and the Elephant Crisis Fund/World Conservation Network, a new four-wheel drive vehicle has been provided to KWS for anti-poaching work, with a particular emphasis on the area where many of Tsavo’s huge ‘hundred pounder’ bull elephants are usually found. These giant animals bear ivory weighing in excess of 100lbs per side. All but wiped out in other parts of Africa by poaching and sport hunting, Tsavo is the last place on earth hosting a viable gene pool of these magnificent elephants.

Providing this additional support to KWS anti-poaching operations is becoming more and more important, as the challenges faced by KWS rangers and field units continue to mount and poaching relentlessly intensifies. The month of May ended with the tragic death of Satao, an iconic Tsavo tusker whose demise at the hands of bow and arrow poachers made headlines around the world. KWS, TSAVO TRUST and our other conservation partners need all the help we can get to protect the remaining icons of Tsavo.

READ OUR FULL REPORT ON THE DEATH OF SATAO

2014 Project Needs: expansion of big tusker project ground unit • additional anti-poaching support Left: Aerial monitoring flight paths (in red) for the past 6 months over the Tsavo Conservation Area (in green), including intensive surveillance of the Ngulia Rhino Sanctuary and Tsavo’s key elephant populations. The majority of our flights are carried out with a KWS rear seat observer, allowing real-time reporting to KWS for immediate follow-up action where required.

Right: Following up on the ground: Tsavo Trust and KWS joint operations to recover ivory from poached elephants.

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Working in partnership with KWS On 8th May 2014, TSAVO TRUST signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS), the national wildlife authority, cementing our cooperation across all fronts of our conservation work.

Last year, TSAVO TRUST helped to secure $171,500 funding for KWS antipoaching operations in the greater Tsavo Conservation Area from the Wildcat Foundation. These funds are now reaching the field and are much needed as KWS faces increasing challenges from organized poaching cartels supplying the illegal international demand for ivory, exacerbated by falling tourism revenues due to fewer international visitors currently coming to Kenya.

Aerial census: Tsavo elephant population

In February 2014, TSAVO TRUST supported the KWS census of the TsavoMkomazi ecosystem by providing our aircraft, Super Cub 5Y-ACE, flown by our Chief Conservation Officer, Richard Moller, with a KWS rear seat observer.

According to the provisional results published on the KWS website, the Tsavo elephant population has declined from 12,572 elephants counted three years ago to approximately 11,000 animals. This result emphasizes the urgent need for ongoing support for elephant conservation efforts in this critical ecosystem.

Each aircraft flew one-kilometer transects across their preassigned blocks as demonstrated by these flight paths logged during the census by our Super Cub, 5Y-ACE.

A segment of a herd of 250+ elephants, part of a loose grouping of 1,000 animals observed by TSAVO TRUST on May 14th 2014 in Tsavo East National Park. Tsavo is one of the last places in Africa where you can still see such large congregations of elephant.

Judicial dialogue: wildlife law enforcement Following his participation in the first Judicial Dialogue held in December 2013 aimed at creating synergy between the different actors in the wildlife law enforcement chain (KWS, Judiciary, prosecutors, police, customs officials, community representatives in human-wildlife conflict areas, international partners and non-governmental organisations in the field of wildlife management and conservation), TSAVO TRUST Chairman, Honorable Justice Nzioki wa Makau also participated in a Second Judicial Dialogue held on 30th January 2014, representing both the Judiciary and TSAVO TRUST. Attendees included officials from the Ministry and Deputy Public Prosecutor’s office, Magistrates, the Police, Customs and Kenya Revenue Authority officials, various stakeTSAVO TRUST Chairman, Hon. Justice Nzioki wa Makau (far holder organizations and the American, British and South African Embassy officials concerned right) leads discussions about proposed amendments to Kenya’s new Wildlife Act in the Chief Justice’s chambers. with security and legal issues in the region. In presenting his report on the outcomes of the first dialogue, Nzioki reiterated the Judiciary’s commitment to enforcing the new Wildlife Act and reminded Magistrates that their performance in this area of law was under scrutiny by the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) and the general public.

He urged Magistrates to be stringent in the application of fines and sentencing to avoid complaints about lenience being meted out to poachers. There was broad agreement that some areas of the Wildlife Act need revisiting, and Nzioki is now actively involved in driving this process forwards.

International engagement & advocacy TSAVO TRUST Chief Operations Officer Ian Saunders was Guest of Honor at an event hosted by the US Ambassador to Kenya at his residence in Nairobi on 27th April, where ‘White Gold’, the African Environmental Film Foundation documentary about the modern day ivory trade, was screened. Ian made a presentation on the role Tsavo Trust is playing in addressing the wildlife security issues hightlighted in the film. He explained how stabilization of vulnerable rural areas where wildlife still exists can be achieved through the development of community wildlife conservancies and his philosophy of ‘Stabilization through Conservation’ which provides a holistic approach to addressing the human factors that lead to poaching, destruction of the environment and unsustainable natural resource use.

TSAVO TRUST was the only Kenyan NGO invited to make a presentation about wildlife law enforcement during the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) held in Nairobi in June, hosted by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. Ian Saunders spoke about the challenges involved in protecting elephants and other wildlife, alongside KWS Acting Director General William Kiprono, KWS Acting Deputy Director Security, Robert Muasya, the Kenya Ministry of Environment, Water and Natural Resources and the head of law enforcement for CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species). READ THE TRANSCRIPT OF IAN’S PRESENTATION TSAVO TRUST is developing a relationship with Exeter University’s Security and Strategy Institute (SSI) through Mr Andrew Brear, a former diplomat and an Honorary Fellow of the Institute. The Institute would be an excellent partner for developing education, training and development opportunities based on Ian Saunders’s philosophy, ‘Stabilization through Conservation’. In principle these opportunities would be open to conservancy managers and other interested parties. SSI has also expressed an interest in supporting the TSAVO TRUST conservancies through research and development, with the aim of developing ‘Stabilization through Conservation’ as a doctrine. An early objective will be to hold an academic, practitioner and supporters event in London, hosted by the SSI and the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), to examine the concepts and associated themes.

Representation in the United States of America TSAVO TRUST now has permanent representation in the USA, as a constituent member of the Tsavo Conservation Group, a non-profit corporation created to support the TSAVO TRUST and its partner organization, the African Environmental Film Foundation.

The Tsavo Conservation Group is awaiting confirmation of its 501(c)(3) status so that it can receive tax-exempt donations on behalf of TSAVO TRUST in the United States.

No fees or commission will be charged for the transfer of contributions to TSAVO TRUST in Kenya.

Under the leadership of a committed Board of Directors and US Manager, Elizabeth Georges, Tsavo Conservation Group will provide a support structure for TSAVO TRUST in the United States and will be actively fundraising to help fund our field operations, allowing the TSAVO TRUST team to focus on what we do best: getting the job done on the ground.

Special thanks to:

USA Contacts Email: liz@tsavoconservationgroup.org Phone: 202-888-6100

Aaron Richard Golub, Esquire, P.C.

The Tsavo ecosystem is not only Kenya’s most important elephant habitat; it also supports a wide variety of other wildlife, including endangered and endemic species. The Hirola (or Hunter’s Antelope) pictured top left, is the only surviving member of its genus and is more endangered than the Black Rhino. The loss of the Hirola would be the first extinction of a mammalian genus on mainland Africa in modern human history. Tsavo is also home to a significant lion population. The male lions in Tsavo are famously maneless, as is this young lion photographed after the recent rains, surrounded by a profusion of heliotropium steudnerei flowers.

A glimpse behind the scenes at TSAVO TRUST Have car, have bed roll, have mosquito net: will travel!

Ian Saunders’s mobile HQ in Orma country

A novel use for gaffer tape: Sometimes the only way for KWS and TSAVO TRUST to ferry back recovered ivory is to strap it underneath our aircraft.

Richard Moller demonstrates how to land a plane “in the bush”: First clear an airstrip, then make sure there are no elephants (or zebra) crossing...wildlife has right of way!

The wild animals make themselves at home around TSAVO TRUST HQ: A tiny pearl-spotted owlet with a squint makes daily visits to the Mollers; a lion just outside the kitchen at the Saunders household; paradise flycatchers frequently nest near our houses - seen here a white morph (usually the bird is chestnut coloured); a curious vervet monkey peering through the window to watch Tanya Saunders at her desk; genets in the dining room...and whatever you do, before you start the car, make sure you check your engine bay for monitor lizards!

TSAVO TRUST: in the news and on the net

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“Richard Moller lives on the edge of Tsavo National Park and along with other colleagues has started the Tsavo Trust to try to help Kenya’s people and wildlife in the Greater Tsavo ecosystem...One of Richard’s aims is to monitor and protect the last of Africa’s big “Tuskers” – there are reckoned to be only 20 left on the entire continent with 12 of them in Tsavo – by air, in conjunction with ground units...After flying in a large circle, there standing slightly apart from a small group of bulls was the most amazing elephant I have ever seen, with enormous white tusks...Richard Moller reckoned he had at least 120lb of ivory on each tusk: what an animal – surely Kenya’s biggest Tusker.”

Robin Page, writing in The Telegraph

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“Ian Saunders has devoted his life’s work to this issue and is one of the world’s foremost experts and a respected advocate for the preservation of elephants. We are fortunate to have the opportunity to hear his views on the threat to elephants and other animals, and what should be done.

Ian has testified at U.S. Congressional Hearings to identify the national and international security implications of the poaching epidemic. His organization, the Tsavo Trust, is dedicated to enhancing wildlife conservation through partnership and collaboration with other NGOs, with the government of Kenya, and with communities and private stakeholders to build a shared vision for the future.”

Robert Godec - US Ambassador to Kenya

ORIGIN MAGAZINE Interview with Ian Saunders

“It is to the credit of Kenya’s conservationists that socioeconomic drivers have been recognized, and community-based conservation – the concept of sharing the economic benefits of wildlife preservation with locals – embraced as central to sustainable anti-poaching strategies.

Ian Saunders of the Tsavo Trust has framed the anti-poaching effort within counterinsurgency theory, urging efforts to win ‘hearts and minds’ of locals with development and collaboration, thereby denying operating space to poachers.”

“We met Richard Moller, of the Tsavo Trust, at a remote airstrip just after sunrise. Somehow, I managed to fold my limbs into the rear of the Trust’s Supercub, 5YACE, and we set off to try and find the bull. Richard takes great pride in the cub’s history – she’s flown over Tsavo for decades, long before there were tracks and tourists. The ‘cub’ knows her way around Tsavo, and she didn’t let us down – within half an hour Richard spotted the bull. We circled him once. We were high, to avoid frightening him, so I couldn’t see if he had a scar on his trunk, but his tusks looked enormous and disturbingly familiar. As we flew back, I had time to wonder whether the ‘cub’ had flown over the bull before – perhaps as a calf in the early ’60’s, one of the first to be born into an independent Kenya. I felt she probably had. On landing I looked around at the assembled people and vehicles. I was struck by how all the elephant conservation organizations in Tsavo were pulling together to go to the help of the iconic old bull.”

Mark Deeble A Wildlife Filmmaker in Africa

A WILDERNESS DIARY

by Tsavo Trust CEO, Tanya Saunders - published monthly in the magazine TRAVEL NEWS

TSAVO TRUST Partners & Supporters TSAVO TRUST works alongside and in support of the KENYA WILDLIFE SERVICE, the national wildlife authority.

THE ORMA COMMUNITY OF ASA - KONE

THE WAKAMBA COMMUNITY OF KAMUNYU - NGILUNI

THE WOODTIGER FUND

FRIEDMAN-FRENCH FOUNDATION

ARNE and MILLY GLIMCHER

STUART HERD DONALD GOLDBERG and TRACY DE LA MATER

CANDICE BERGEN MALLE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

In addition to our conservation partners and corporate sponsors, we would like to extend our thanks to all our individual supporters who have contributed generously to TSAVO TRUST’s work this year.

SPECIAL THANKS TO: Rodger Schlickeisen, Elizabeth Georges, Steven Stone, David Houghton, US National Refuge Association, Erica Wissolik, Pat Awori, Bruce Lumish, Phillip Royalty, Thomas Lanning, CohnReznick, Mike Cheffings, Paul Wilson, Pete Newland, Richard Ruggiero, Kinetic Six Ltd, Andrew Braer, Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, Northern Rangelands Trust, Kalama Community Wildlife Conservancy, Nakupratt Gotu Community Wildlife Conservancy, Richard Golub, Nehemiah Glanc, Chad Berkowitz, The Pace Gallery, Rachel Boyle, Sarah McNaughton, Population Media Center

Jerome Starkey

The people on the ground

Hon. Justice Nzioki wa Makau Chairman, Tsavo Trust Board

Mama Rose, Committee Member Kamungi Conservancy

Mwangangi Koti Tsavo Trust Aviation / Logistical Support

Salim Mohamed, Co-founder & Secretary, Malkahalaku Conservancy

Chief Omar Co-founder, Malkahalaku Conservancy

Ian Saunders Tsavo Trust Chief Operations Officer

Richard Moller Tsavo Trust Chief Conservation Officer

Mutua Koti, Kamunyu Village Elder & Co-founder, Kamungi Conservancy

Chief Ibrahim Dame Shambaro Chairman, Malkahalaku Conservancy

Tanya Saunders Tsavo Trust Chief Executive Officer

Makau Muindi Tsavo Trust Operational Support

Vanessa Watts

Tsavo Trust Wildlife Rehabilitation Manager

Joseph Mutiso Co-founder, Kamungi Conservancy

Liz Georges Tsavo Conservation Group US Manager

Contact Us TSAVO TRUST is a Kenyan non-profit organization, working in support of wildlife, habitat and people in southern Kenya’s strategically and ecologically important Greater Tsavo Ecosystem.

We also have representation in the USA and UK.

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Saying goodbye to Satao, the late Tsavo icon and ‘hundred pounder tusker’ killed by poachers in May 2014.

The death of Satao, second from the rear, was a tragedy for Tsavo, for Kenya and for elephant lovers worldwide but his legacy lives on with the surviving elephants of Tsavo, and they continue to need all our protection.

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