Project
Connecting Carnivore Landscapes
Initiative
Duration
2020 - 2022
Location
Kenya
Species protected
Project objectives
This project aims to develop a prototype for how local communities themselves can achieve carnivore conservation and maintain landscape connectivity in a holistic manner. It also plans to improve conflict response and prevention, as well as increase the presence and community tolerance for lions, cheetahs, and wild dogs in the eight communities and 680’000 hectares covered by the project.
This project is implemented by South Rift Association of Landowners.
Threats
Human-wildlife conflict
This project is part of the IUCN Save Our Species African Wildlife initiative, which is co-funded by the European Union.