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Connecting Carnivore Landscapes Through Coexistence and Collaboration
Contributing IUCN constituents:International Union for Conservation of Nature
Project Details
| Name | Connecting Carnivore Landscapes Through Coexistence and Collaboration |
| Description | The Mara-Serengeti ecosystem and Amboseli-Tsavo-Mukomazi are two of Africa’s remaining large carnivore strongholds. Between these two ecosystems lies Kenya’s Southern Rift region in which viable lion, cheetah, and African wild dog populations continue to coexist with Maasai pastoralists outside of any formal protected areas. Our overarching goal is to support the efforts of these Maasai communities to coexist with lions, cheetah and wild dog thereby both safeguarding these populations and maintaining the landscape connectivity between Mara-Serengeti and Amboseli –Tsavo ecosystems. To do so requires increasing tolerance to large carnivores within the Southern Rift landscape as a whole, but with a focus on three critical corridors which form the primary links between the two periphery ecosystems. This project works with the eight Maasai communities that comprise two of these corridors (the North-Western and Western corridor between the Shompole and the Mara). To foster coexistence with lions, cheetah, and wild dog our project activities centre around building community capacity to (i) protect large carnivore habitat and prey populations, (ii) monitoring lion, cheetah, and wild dog movement, (iii) responding to and preventing human-carnivore conflict, (iv) develop of conservation and land use plans that will facilitate human-carnivore coexistence. |
| Contributing IUCN Constituent | International Union for Conservation of Nature |
| Start Date | 5/4/2020 |
| End Date | 11/3/2022 |
| Conservation Actions | 3.1 Species Management4.1 Formal Education4.3 Awareness & Communications5.2 Policies & Regulations |
| Needed annual budget | $77,562.00 |
| Total annual budget | $77,562.00 |
| Staff | ♀ - | ♂ - |
| Beneficiaries | ♀ - | ♂ - |
Potential reduction of species extinction risk resulting from threat abatement actions
This stacked bar chart represents the relative disaggregation of the selected contribution's total potential opportunity for reducing global species extinction risk through taking actions to abate different threats to species within its boundaries. The percentages refer to the amount of the total opportunity that could potentially be achieved through abating that particular threat.
% Contribution of threats to species extinction
1.12%
4.2 Utility & service lines
1.19%
6.3 Work & other activities
1.39%
5.3 Logging & wood harvesting
1.55%
7.3 Other ecosystem modifications
1.98%
1.1 Housing & urban areas
2.06%
3.2 Mining & quarrying
2.09%
6.2 War, civil unrest & military exercises
4.41%
7.2 Dams & water management/use
4.95%
7.1 Fire & fire suppression
5.01%
6.1 Recreational activities
5.93%
9.3 Agricultural & forestry effluents
7.54%
8.2 Problematic native species/diseases
15.27%
2.1 Annual & perennial non-timber crops
18.16%
2.3 Livestock farming & ranching
23.87%
5.1 Hunting & collecting terrestrial animals
Threat type