9 elephant bulls moved
July 2013. The Laikipia-Samburu ecosystem has the second largest population of elephants in Kenya making it a hotspot for human-elephant conflict. In order to mitigate this conflict, Ol Pejeta initiated an elephant monitoring programme in 2005 to identify habitual fence breakers so that appropriate management interventions could be undertaken. The monitoring is carried out by a skilled elephant tracker armed with GPS, binoculars and camera to check on every fence breakage or crop raid and store data in a specially designed database. Thanks to this system, the habitual fence breakers are well known.
Over the years, different intervention strategies such as collaring, de-tusking and even upgrading the electric boundary fence have been used to control fence breaking and crop raiding elephants within the conservancy. However, these interventions were not always effective as a few individuals continued to break fences and studies were carried out to find out why.
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