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Topic: Kenya Wildlife Service

	17/1/2002 -- Kenya Wildlife Service Goes Broke, Elephants at Risk
		The wildlife conservation body, once the pride of conservationists, is one of the seven departments in the Office of the President headed by Nassir.
		The service's acting director, Joseph Kioko, admits that the body is "facing serious revenue problems." He attributes the financial crunch to the September 11 terrorist attacks in America which he says dealt a major blow to Kenya's tourism sector.
		With wildlife tourism one of the country's major sources of foreign exchange, elephants are one of the most important financial elements of the Kenyan economy.
	forests.org /articles/reader.asp?linkid=6775 (1446 words)

	KENYA WILDLIFE SERVICE REVIEW
		Still in its infancy and not yet considered a mainstream Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) conservation policy, ecotourism is expected to have a low impact on both the environment and local cultures, while helping to create jobs and enhancing the conservation of wildlife and biodiversity.
		In (Kenya's) Coast Province's Arabuko-Sokoke Forest Reserve, for example, KWS realised that while it is her duty to preserve the rare plant species there, the community's interests in harvesting certain medicinal species had to be recognised.
		One of the main achievements of KWS on the community wildlife programme has been the creation of awareness and the mobilisation of communities to such an extent that, at present, people in dispersal areas are proposing wildlife conservation and utilisation projects.
	www.safariweb.com /safarimate/kws.htm (1961 words)

	A Better Earth - Protecting People and Wildlife in Kenya (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		According to the Kenya Wildlife Service, elephants cause 75 percent of human deaths from wildlife.
		The former director of Kenya Wildlife Service, David Western, observed correctly that if villagers living around a park made money from wildlife, the park would in effect become the villagers' bank and the wild animals in the park their assets.
		Another approach would be to decentralize the Kenya Wildlife Service into regional committees that are managed by elected representatives from the ranches, farmers, trust land, and government land representatives.
	www.abetterearth.org /subcategory.php/169.html (1364 words)

	Friends of Kenya Schools and Wildlife
		Kenya has 57 national park, reserves and marine reserves; almost 10% of the country's land area is devoted to wildlife conservation.
		Kenya's numerous and varied birdlife (1075 species) is attracting increasing numbers of ornithologists and bird-watchers, and is the fastest growing sector of the tourist industry.
		Kenya holds the record for the largest number of birds seen in a 24-hour period; 340 seen by Terry Stevenson, John Fanshaw and Andy Roberts (a team from the USA has recorded a higher total in South America, but a substantial amount of the birds were only heard and not seen).
	www.fksw.org /wildlife.html (849 words)

	news - KENYA WILDLIFE SERVICE PRESS RELEASE on elephants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Kenya, however, has conducted population surveys on key elephant populations this year, and these data together with additional information on poaching and illegal trade in ivory, has convinced the authorities that the re-opening of legal trade was premature.
		Kenya has traditionally burned her ivory in demonstration of her strong position against the ivory trade and has never sought financial compensation for this destruction of ivory.
		Kenya proposes to limit live sales to mature elephants, and to appropriate and acceptable destinations in other range States where they would be free, wild-living elephants contributing to the conservation of the species.
	www.bornfree.org.uk /news020.htm (957 words)

	10/20/00 -- Thousands Face Eviction to Conserve Kenya's Tana River Mangabey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		He is urging the wildlife service to involve the leaders from the area in their campaign to conserve the Tana River mangabey.
		Shambaro maintains that if the wildlife body goes ahead with the relocation of the residents without the involvement of the local leaders, then the long term repercussions will boomerang on the Kenya Wildlife Service and their Global Environment Facility counterparts who are already on the ground negotiating with the divided villagers.
		He says that although the Kenya Wildlife Service is willing to put up social amenities like schools and dispensaries for the people in their new locations in their bid to win their approval of the relocation, the wildlife body is far from succeeding in its mission.
	forests.org /archive/africa/thfaceev.htm (898 words)

	TVE's Earth Report
		Mount Kenya, an island of pristine indigenous forest and wildlife surrounded by densely populated small farming areas, is the scene of a battle between man and nature.
		Kenya's forestry department is merging with the Kenya Wildlife Service in a bid to stop the loggers in their tracks.
		Kenya is mainly a rural economy and people are desperate to farm the fertile land around the forest.
	www.tve.org /earthreport/archive/17Jul2000.html (994 words)

	CNN - Kenya rebuilds wildlife relationship - Apr. 8, 1996 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Kenya's people are taking more of the nation's land and eliminating much of the natural habitat animals need to thrive.
		Wildlife populations have decreased 30 percent to 50 percent in the past two decades, and some environmentalists predict that the next 20 years will bring near annihilation of Kenya's animal kingdom if drastic measures are not taken.
		The Wildlife Service is working with community groups to help Kenyans see the animals as resources instead of competitors for food and land.
	www.cnn.com /EARTH/9604/08/kenya_wildlife (327 words)

	Kenya Wildlife Service
		The Kenya Wildlife Service's role is as diverse as the areas in which we operate.
		The Kenya Wildlife Service will manage these resources, which are of inestimable economic, socio-cultural, aesthetic and scientific value.
		To fulfill this mission, Kenya Wildlife Service will develop the required human resources, achieve financial self-sufficiency and encourage the support and participation of the people of Kenya.
	www.kilimanjaro.com /kenya/kws.htm (492 words)

	Wildlife In Kenya (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Kenya Wildlife Service is pushing a plan to give the African lion maximum protection under a U.N. body that governs trade in endangered or threatened plants and animals.
		Conservative estimates place the African lion population at 23,000, Since the convention's ambit is limited to wildlife exported for primarily commercial purposes, Kenya is banking that members will consider the export of lions shot on trophy hunts as trade.
		Kenya, for its part, is willing to risk the fight to bring attention to the problem.
	book2gosafari.info /Wildlife_In_Kenya.htm (413 words)

	NWF - International Wildlife Magazine - David Western, Kenya (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		"We have to make sure that wildlife has value to the people who must live with it." The only way to do that, he argues, is through community-based conservation, in which local people participate in decision making and benefit directly from protecting wildlife on their lands.
		When Richard Leakey took over the wildlife service in 1989, it was known as the "Wildlife Poaching Department." The entire park system teetered on the verge of collapse with poachers gunning down elephants and robbing visitors, even killing tourists.
		Kenya's population has grown from 9 million to 28 million in the past three decades.
	www.nwf.org /internationalwildlife/1998/western.html (2863 words)

	ESRI Map Book Gallery Volume 17: Conservation -
		Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) is working with its partners to expand the current existing wildlife protected area system through the creation of community and private conservation areas.
		Human population pressure on Kenya's wildlife protected system continues to mount, leading to the question of whether there is a minimum viable conservation area for Kenya.
		This map is a rough draft that attempts to capture Kenya's minimum conservation area network, which consists mainly of wildlife protected areas, wildlife dispersal areas, wildlife migration corridors, and other areas of biodiversity such as forests.
	www.esri.com /mapmuseum/mapbook_gallery/volume17/conservation3.html (238 words)

	Kenya Wildlife Service Training Institute - KWSTI
		Kenya Wildlife Service Training Institute: Where knowledge is sought as well as taught.
		The Kenya Wildlife Service Training Institute (KWSTI) is one of the training units of the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) based in Naivasha (a small lakeside touristic town surrounded by a busy horticultural and fishing industry) about 80 Km northwest of Nairobi.
		It was essentially an in-service training institution for the Departments of Wildlife and Fisheries, respectively, both of which fell under the same Ministry.
	www.kws.org /kwsti.html (413 words)

	African travel and wildlife news for February 1998
		Because the wildlife service depends entirely on tourism to cover operating costs, the Kenya Wildlife Service has announced a series of money-saving moves, including strict financial controls, a hiring freeze, cuts in the headquarters' budget and the sale of most spare parts for vehicles.
		The Kenya Wildlife Service dispatched a team to the affected areas last December after deaths were observed among gerenuks (an antelope specie).
		Kenya's Lake Nakuru is once again fringed with pink as more than a million flamingos take advantage of ideal weather caused by El Nino's rains and flock to the ancient soda basin.
	www.ultimateafrica.com /feb98.htm (2537 words)

	Kenya Wildlife Service - KWS
		Our mission is, "To work with others to sustainably conserve, protect and manage Kenya's invaluable bio-diversity for the benefit of the people of Kenya and as a world heritage".
		The vegetation varies from the dense tropical forests, the mangrove forests along the coast, to the shruberry of the arid desert lands, to the thick mountainous forests and alpine vegetation along the slopes of the snow-capped Mount Kenya.
		Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) is charged with the protection and conservation of the country's biodiversity as presented by its fauna and flora.
	www.kws.org (221 words)

	08/07/00 -- Man Killed as Desperate Animals Escape Kenyan Parks
		While the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) is doing its best to keep animals within the confines of national parks, thirsty and famished elephants, zebras, buffaloes and monkeys are breaking down fences to forage on farms in search of food and water.
		In late July, residents of Kenya's coastal Kinango region in the Kwale district, gave the Kenya Wildlife Services 30 days to contain the elephants about 45 miles south of the port town of Mombasa.
		At the expiry of this notice, we are going to deal with animals ourselves because the KWS have neglected and refused to heed the outcry of the farmers and of parents whose children can no longer attend school owing to the animals' terror.
	www.climateark.org /articles/2000/3rd/mankilla.htm (739 words)

	ENVIRONMENT-KENYA: Making Wildlife Pay
		The workshop ended with the formation of the ''Kenya Landowners Wildlife Forum (KLWF)'', that aims to help lay a realistic basis for decisions and policies that are good for wildlife, the land and landowners.
		An estimated 60 to 70 percent of Kenya's wildlife lives outside protected areas and this makes the conservation of game on communal and private lands vitally important for the health of the nation's wildlife resource base.
		Tourism is Kenya's second foreign exchange earner after agriculture, and most of the tourists come to view its wildlife.
	www.ips.fi /koulut/199751/12.htm (856 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Africa \| Kenya's wildlife head suspended
		Kenya Wildlife Service director Evans Mukolwe is presently being investigated by corruption officials.
		Kenya's Anti-Corruption Commission says investigations show 520 of nearly 1,000 trainee rangers were employed on the recommendations of politicians.
		Kenya was found to be slightly less corrupt than last year in a recent survey by Transparency International.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/3995077.stm (136 words)

	Elephants, forest farmers clash in Kenya - The Washington Times: World Briefings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Mount Kenya National Forest Reserve covers 850 square miles around the base of the 16,893-foot mountain and is home to 2,000 elephants, as well as buffalo, waterbuck, bushbuck, wild pigs, rhinos, monkeys and other wildlife.
		Joachim Kagiri of the wildlife service said 932 miles of fence would be needed around areas including Mount Kenya and the Aberdares to reduce the conflict between animals and humans by 80 percent.
		When wildlife service rangers are alerted, they fire gunshots into the air and throw large firecrackers at the elephants, but that doesn't always work either.
	www.washtimes.com /world/20030608-111151-2533r.htm (980 words)

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		As a result, the Kenya wildlife officials invited Stauffer to return last fall to present the HEP workshop to some of their biologists.
		Developed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and used widely in America, HEP represents a formal set of methods to evaluate the quality of habitat for wildlife species of interest and is used to assess the potential impacts of various actions taken that modify wildlife habitats.
		Both wildlife experts conduct the HEP training in the U.S. As a result of the Kenya workshop last fall, the KWS has requested that both men return in 1998 to conduct another class for more of their personnel.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /vtpubs/spectrum/sp980730/4a.html (488 words)

	Kenya
		Kenya lies across the equator in east-central Africa, on the coast of the Indian Ocean.
		Kenya borders Somalia to the east, Ethiopia to the north, Tanzania to the south, Uganda to the west, and Sudan to the northwest.
		Kenya is regularly ranked among the ten most corrupt countries in the world, according to the watchdog group Transparency International.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107678.html (1125 words)

	Save the Rhino International - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) Wamithi rose from assistant warden to assistant director in charge of intelligence.
		He was responsible for identifying areas of security threat within Kenya's wildlife park and reserve system, and for the design and development of intelligence procedures and policies.
		The Kenya Wildlife Service oversees 17 national parks and reserves, and walks a fine line between "the need to protect the elephant on the one hand and the need to protect human life and property on the other."
	www.savetherhino.org /php/press.php?id=6&item=108 (578 words)

	Environment News Service ENS Latest Environmental Information Education Current Issues RSS
		Then Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) Director Nehemiah Rotich; Lusaka Agreement Task Force Director Adan Dullo, and KWS chairman, C. Njonjo unwrap tusks confiscated from smugglers.
		The experimental sale of nearly 50 tons of ivory from Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe to Japan was approved at the 10th meeting of the Conference of the Parties held in Harare, Zimbabwe in June 1997.
		Kenya and India were successful with their counter proposal to put the elephants of Botswana, Zimbabwe and Namibia back on Appendix I of the CITES Treaty, along with other elephants, a proposal that banned all trade in elephant products everywhere for three years.
	www.ens-newswire.com /ens/jan2002/2002-01-17-03.asp (1357 words)

	World InfoZone - Kenya Information - Page 1
		The Republic of Kenya is in East Africa and is bordered by Tanzania, Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia and the Indian Ocean.
		Kenya's natural environment is varied: coral reefs along the coastline, tropical rainforests, savannah, semi-desert and mountains with alpine regions.
		Kenya's parks and reserves are home to many birds and other wildlife.
	www.worldinfozone.com /country.php?country=Kenya (387 words)

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		Wamithi was the Assistant Director of Intelligence for the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS).
		Wamithi was responsible for identifying areas of security threat within Kenya's wildlife park and reserve system, and for the design and development of intelligence procedures and policies.
		Kenya’s elephants have often been the targets of poachers, and KWS is tasked protecting the nation’s elephants and other wildlife.
	www.ifaw.org /ifaw/general/default.aspx?oid=57104 (455 words)

	Kenya Safaris - Cape To Cairo
		The aim of the project, initiated by Lonrho East Africa, Kenya Wildlife Services and the Jane Goodall Institute, was to set up a colony where chimps could be introduced, rehabilitated and taught to fend for themselves in an area similar to their natural living conditions.
		They shall share their love of Africa, and extensive knowledge of the wildlife with you, so that your time at Soysambu will be a safari within a safari, an unforgettable wildlife experience, an education that will stay with you for many years to come.
		Near to Mida Creek is Kenya's greatest archaeological heritage, the ruined city of Gede, a lost city whose population inexplicably vanished in the 17th century.
	www.capecairo.com /kenya/kenya.html (5083 words)

	Muthiga case study (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Kenya Wildlife Service and lies between Tudor Creek to the south and Mtwapa creek to the north, of Mombasa District, Coast Province, Kenya (latitudes 40
		The Kenya Wildlife Service was directed by the government to survey and map the area and demarcate boundaries for a Marine protected area.
		However the discharge of raw sewage from the Shimo-La-Tewa prison into the Mtwapa creek, the practice of disposal of swimming pool water in the MPA and the seasonal inflow of sediments from the creeks are a cause for concern (Mwangi et al 2000).
	www.columbia.edu /cu/cerc/training/forum_01cs/MuthigaCS.html (5441 words)

	Kenya
		The Kenya Wildlife Service Veterinary Unit is based at the organization’s headquarters in Nairobi.
		The unit comprises the country’s most competent wildlife veterinarians, technicians, and animal capture staff.
		The goal of the veterinary unit is to offer wildlife veterinary service nationally to ensure stable/growing healthy populations of wildlife within Kenya, assist in preventing habitat destruction by wildlife, and reduce human-wildlife conflict.
	www.joanembery.com /Kenya.html (254 words)

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