Whats Going On?

 

Conserving wildlife populations within protected boundary lines has its own challenges on wildlife and ecosytems within and outside the protected area as pressures from the peripherals of the park are affecting the wildlife in the Parks.

The expanding human settlements and change in land use is impacting on seasonal migrations of animals and precipitating biodiversity los through habitat fragmentation.

Woodlands are being destroyed and the hills stripped of its forest affecting water catchments that is affecting river regimes that are a life line for the Tsavo ecosystem.

The charcoal trade is decimating the woodlands that provide for wildlife dispersal foraging ground and the perennial fire spill overs from adjacent community land is severely changing the vegetation structure inside the Park.

Compounding these problems is the escalating bush meat trade and the resurgence in poaching that threathens the future of Tsavos Wildlife.