High levels of illegal habitat destruction activities and bushmeat poaching continue to threaten the Mara’s wildlife and habitat as communities struggle to find alternative livelihoods as the tourism industry recovers. In response, Mara Elephant Project held a ranger recruitment and selected 10 new recruits that are now participating in basic training on MEP’s campus. These new rangers will be deployed in the Loita area, alongside a MEP team already operating in the Loita Forest to protec…
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On October 1, Mara Elephant Project received an urgent call from Jeffrey Wu that a young boy was charged by a cape buffalo and had serious injuries that needed immediate attention. While MEP’s Karen Blixen Camp Trust helicopter is most often used for protecting wildlife and mitigating conflict; it has been used previously for medical evacuation flights to ensure injured people are able to receive the medical attention they need as quickly as possible. When lives are in danger, people know t…
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