News & Events
Press Briefing & Media Kit on Local Biodiversity Outlooks – Version 2
25th September 2020Watch the Sept. 23rd Press Briefing: Local Biodiversity Outlooks 2: Forest Peoples Programme: Ways Forward - Indigenous & Local Perspectives on Our Biodiversity Crisis. Spread awareness with this Media Kit created by Forest Peoples Programme, IIFB, Indigenous Women’s Biodiversity Network and Convention on Biological Diversity.Read More
Sept. 2020 News From the Field — Resilience & Building Back Better With Your Help
25th September 2020Sept. 2020 News From the Field — Organizational Resilience, Adaptive Leadership & Designing a Green Economy
In this newsletter, we share COVID impacts on Kenya, what we’ve learned about resilience and how we envision building back better with your crucial support. We hope you enjoy our stories from the field below including features on organizational resilience, adaptive leadership, and designing a green economy. The assistance of our international network of supporters has contributed so much to conserving wildlife, restoring ecosystems, community empowerment, education and influencing governmental policies in Kenya. We are truly grateful for your support!
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Bucking the Dismal Decline in Wildlife: Amboseli Numbers are Going Up
1st August 2020By David Western and Victor N. Mose | Amboseli Conservation Program (ACP)
Amboseli Conservation Program’s five decades of continuous monitoring the Amboseli region shows an astonishing turnaround for wildlife after years of decline. Many species are now more abundant than forty-five years ago, a remarkable contrast to the rapid losses across Africa and around the world.
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Swara: A Review of the Nairobi National Park Plan 2020-2030
26th July 2020By David Western
Restoration calls for good science to guide management. Nairobi National Park (NNP) was gazetted as Kenya’s first park in 1946, a far less populous era. In 1967, as a graduate student at the University of Nairobi, I watched the wealth of plains animals move from the short-cropped plains into the valleys and swamps as the season hardened, tracked by lions and cheetahs. A wildlife spectacle, the park gave tourists their first views of lions, cheetahs, giraffes, buffalos and rhinos.
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BIODIVERSITY
LIVELIHOODS
LEARNING EXCHANGES
BIODIVERSITY INFORMATICS
Make a Difference
Further the healthy coexistence of people and wildlife, and conserve life-giving ecosystems.
Explore Impacts
ELEPHANT CONSERVATION
The plight of elephants is dire. ACC’s programs reduce poaching, expand and protect migratory routes, and empower communities to protect this keystone species.
LAND CONSERVATION
ACC combines scientific and local knowledge to improve the management of natural resources while improving livelihoods, recognizing the health of the whole ecosystem – humans, wildlife and land.
COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE
ACC develops sustainable community enterprises related to eco-tourism, nature-based products, crafts, rangeland and wildlife management and environmental education.
CULTURAL HERITAGE
ACC’s programs celebrate and promote the Maasai’s pastoral traditions that reduce land degradation and permanent settlements and provide a landscape in which both people and wildlife can thrive.
LION CONSERVATION
By combining the latest science with Maasai knowledge and participation, we are increasing lion numbers across Kenya’s South Rift and decreasing human/lion conflicts.
CLIMATE CHANGE
ACC and its collaborators are mapping the distribution of animals, plants and human livelihoods; modeling their vulnerability to climate and land use change; and recommending mitigating & adaptive strategies.
Resources
DEVELOPMENT CORRIDORS PARTNERSHIP
Report
Development Corridors in Kenya — A Scoping Study
HUMAN ECOLOGY
An Interdisciplinary Journal
Variability and Change in Maasai Views of Wildlife and the Implications for Conservation
KENYA’S NATURAL CAPITAL
Business & Biodiversity
Natural Capital Underpins Business Growth.
KENYA’S NATURAL CAPITAL
National Policy Makers
Natural Capital Underpins Kenya’s Prosperity.