James Mbuthia Mutua Koti Feisal Muteti Francis Chege Masaku Mbanga 4KWS Rangers
The areas that we visited this month were The Triangle, Kenani, the Tsavo West boundary along Mangelete, Yumbuni, Ngulia, The pipeline and the Tsavo West waterholes and their surrounding environs.
261 SNARES COLLECTED
A total of 261 snares were lifted during the months operations which were carried out along the major poaching hotspots and the discovering of new areas where poaching is taking place. 3 Dikdiks, and 1 Bushbuck were rescued from snares.
One of the poachers that was arrested has been poaching within the park for the past 15 years. He was able to give our team information about poacher’s hideouts which led to the arrest of 4 more poachers
Over the next few months the team will work on trying to siphon more information from the poachers in order to discover new poaching hotspots in Tsavo as the poachers are moving further into the park in order to avoid being detected by our de-snaring team.
Charcoal burning is also a major problem in Tsavo West and it has negatively impacts water catchments.
Report by James Mbuthia