In August, Mara Elephant Project had a first of its kind incident on Lake Victoria. Our intelligence team led us to Busia near Uganda where we were tracking 15 pieces of ivory coming out of Tanzania. The suspects decided the safest way to cross the border was via boat through Ugandan waters and then back into Kenya. While the suspects and the informant were on the water a Ugandan patrol boat approached them and they threw the six sacks of tusks overboard, rendering them lost forever in the de…
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When collaring, Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) and Mara Elephant Project focus on candidates that will gather useful spatial data meaning elephants in border areas, areas of conflict or areas outside of conservancies or national reserves. We are also looking for candidates that represent crop raiding elephants identified across the dispersal area. In the southern area of Olderekesi Conservancy near Cottar’s 1920s Safari Camp, which borders the Maasai Mara National Reserve, MEP received re…
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