As human populations increase, conservationists are calling for more routes to give wild life safe passage from conflict and wildfires.
Conservationists in Kenya are warning of shrinking wildlife spaces in the east African country that generates substantial revenue from wildlife tourism.
While conservation efforts over the past two decades have led to the supposed recovery of many threatened species, the animals are losing wide swaths of habitat because of threats stemming from climate change and destructive human behavior, activists warn.
But, this World Wildlife Day, they also cite an opportunity in ‘wildlife corridors’ – strips of land connecting areas that would otherwise be separated by human activities.
By allowing free movement of animals and reducing incidents of human-wildlife conflict, such corridors enables the growth of wildlife populations.
Kenya Wildlife Service, or KWS, is encouraging conservancies such as Lewa and private landowners to open up wildlife corridors for free animal movement, with translocation efforts also underway to relocate animals from crowded ecosystems into less populated areas.
KWS, in a recent statement, cited the Tsavo-Amboseli ecosystem, an expansive protected area in southern Kenya that hosts key elephant migration routes, as increasingly under pressure due to human activities affecting the free movement of wildlife.
Similarly, the wildlife corridor known as Kitengela, which connects Nairobi National Park to the grasslands of southern Kenya, has faced fragmentation due to human settlements and infrastructure development.
Beside climate change, rapid urbanisation driven by population growth is a major factor in the shrinking of wildlife corridors, according to KWS.
There is also the additional problem of wildfires, with Kenya Forest Service reporting over 180 wildfires that have damaged more than 1,358 hectares of vegetation across the country since the beginning of this year.
Euro News / ABC Flash Point News 2025.
By allowing free movement of animals and reducing incidents of human-wildlife conflict, such corridors enables the growth of wildlife populations.
All crap propaganda for the cattle to believe the elite has good intentions, while mass killing elephants and rhino’s to cash in huge amount of profits. Even confiscated tusks are burned to avoid a drop in market prices?