NAIROBI, Kenya-The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS), in collaboration with conservation partners including Tsavo Trust, Kamungi Rangers, and field teams from Lukenya University, has successfully moved a group of elephants away from the university campus to protect both people and wildlife.
The operation involved guiding the elephants out of areas where they posed a risk to students, staff and infrastructure, and into safer wildlife habitats.
The coordinated effort reflects a broader push by KWS to reduce human-wildlife conflict, particularly in areas where elephant movements intersect with human settlements.
The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS), with support from @TsavoTrust, Kamungi Rangers, and the Lukenya University team, successfully moved five elephants away from Lukenya University.The coordinated operation ensured the safety of students and staff, highlighting the power of
Elephants are known to roam between protected areas and community lands in search of food and water, a behaviour that has increasingly brought them into contact with residential and agricultural zones.
In response, KWS has stepped up its interventions across the country.
These include constructing and maintaining extensive electric fencing, boosting ranger patrols, and relocating elephants back into designated wildlife areas when they stray into human-inhabited spaces.
