Month: July 2018

Month: July 2018

MEP Q2 Ranger Report

The Mara Elephant Project rangers along with our government partners, Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) and Narok County Government, have had a very successful second quarter in 2018. The MEP intelligence unit has had many notable successes starting in April, when they recovered 25 kg of ivory and arrested two suspects near the town of Migori in Kenya. As we’ve been seeing more recently, the ivory came from Tanzania. This indicates the need for cooperation between Mara Elephant Project’s intel… Continue reading.

Singita Collared Elephant Visits The Mara

The Singita Grumeti Fund has a very similar mission to Mara Elephant Project, with a focus on the Serengeti in Tanzania. It is essential when collecting data on elephant rangelands within the Mara ecosystem that we connect both the Mara and Serengeti rangelands to get a more complete picture cross boundary use of the ecosystem. MEP’s involvement with our partners, like Singita, is extremely important to protecting the Mara ecosystem. The Maasai Mara ecosystem is an extension of the vast Ser… Continue reading.

MEP June 2018 Report

MEP Monthly Report June 2018 The Mara has started to dry up and, as maize crops ripen, human-elephant conflict (HEC) is on the rise in all areas of MEP operations except Isokon in the Transmara where farmers have not planted yet. MEP rangers continue filling out MEP HEC forms and mitigation forms and bringing them to MEP HQ at the end of the month for data to be entered into DAS. This month there was an increase in the human-elephant conflict cases in the Lemek and Munyas area. In Lemek and … Continue reading.