Wildlife Conservation

The Pan African Wildlife Conservation Network (P.A.W.C.N) is an initiative that was started in the year 2000 with the focus of uniting wildlife activist groups in Africa.

Our mission is to raise awareness, and lobby for issues towards conservation of wildlife and the environment in Africa.

This is achieved by speaking at various national, regional, continental and global forums, representing various views, concepts, strategies and observations emanating from stakeholders and interest groups alike.

This movement has been in operation from the year 2000, till present day and continues to gather momentum as we expand our reach to different parts of the continent.

P.A.W.C.N is directed by me, Patricia Awori.

The Kenya Elephant Forum was established in 2007. It provides a participatory platform for gathering and disseminating information to guide the formulation and implementation of policy and action for African elephant conservation and management in the context of rational and sensitive co-existence of elephants and people in shared ecosystems.

Proposals to relax the African elephant’s protected status and to promote one-off sales of stockpiled ivory spell doom to the elephants within our lifetimes. Thirty African countries have come together to harness information and coordinate action for shaping policy to ensure the elephants’ future.

In February 2008, nineteen national representatives met in Mali. The Parties
present agreed the ‘Bamako Declaration’ to formalise the ‘African Elephant Coalition’, declaring that:

The Coalition will strive to have a viable and healthy elephant population free of threats from international ivory trade. Parties to the coalition will also develop an elephant action plan that will encompass national and regional elephant strategies that promote non-consumptive use of elephants through development of ecotourism for the benefit of local communities.…Read More

Kenya and it’s friends have put great effort towards conserving and other endangered species.

Click on the map to view the key areas where conservation is taking place.

Poaching and ivory trade has in recent times become exceedingly rampant. It is only a matter of time before our eco-system and tourism industry are gravely affected. We, as young Kenyans will not just sit and watch this happen. We must protect and preserve our fauna before it is too late. Not only for us but for our future generations.

Perhaps it is the laxity and leniency with which the government tolerates poachers by having a weak and archaic legislation that metes out ridiculous penalties to perpetrators [The Wildlife (Conservation and Management) Act].

Therefore, we realize that we must lobby the National Assembly to pass the current Wildlife Bill into law which will put more stringent penalties and hopefully discourage and stop poaching. We also realize that there are some people who find poaching an easy income and thus those people and communities that live around wildlife must also be sensitized on the matter.

It is also imperative to us that our forset cover percentage increases and we would like to plant trees and encourage various communities to also plant trees as well as vegetation in order to stabilize our ecosystem, we are keen to note that climate change is caused by this imbalance man has caused by littering polluting and cutting trees. just like bees, trees are central to the balance of our ecosystem.

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