Kenya wildlife Service has launched its biannual census of elephants and other large mammals in the Tsavo-Mkomanzi conservation area on the border with Tanzania as part of its conservation effort. The latest exercise which kicked off on Thursday at the country’s coastal region. hopes to establish the populations of elephants and other large mammals, to assess the impact of poaching and climate change.



“In 2014 we counted a total of 11, 217 elephants. That number can further be interrogated because overall from previous counts in 2011 we had a decline of about 10% of the elephants, that was purposely due to the poaching that was then. And again that figure we saw that 85% of the 11, 217 were elephants within the protected areas and that means that the elephants within the park had increased by 10%.”

Dr. Erastus Kanga, a senior Kenya Wildlife Service official said.



The Tsavo-Mkomanzi census will cover Tsavo West, Tsavo East, Chyullu Hills, Mkomanzi in Tanzania, Kitui and Taita-Taveta ranches, will run for two weeks at a cost of about $190,000.



The census is part of efforts by Kenya Wildlife Service and other stakeholders to establish informed security and conservation oriented strategies, to enhance species protection, scale-up on anti- poaching efforts and develop ways to reduce human-wildlife conflict.

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Soon the will conduct sand census. please don't be surprise when you hear something like that.