Equitable Responses to Illegal Wild Meat Hunting in Tsavo, Kenya

TTWCA in collaboration with Zoology Society of London (ZSL) is implementing a Darwin initiative, Darwin, Illegal Wildlife Trade Challenge Fund, and Darwin Plus funded project: Equitable Responses to Illegal Wild Meat Hunting in Tsavo, Kenya

Outcome: Reduced hunting and sale of wild meat by local communities, enhanced livelihoods for those communities, fewer snares and improved status of large carnivore and prey populations in Tsavo.

Outputs:

• Targeted law enforcement, including de-snaring efforts, leading to reduced snaring levels in the Tsavo landscape, and data on trends in snaring and illegal killing of wildlife.
• Targeted social marketing campaigns, based on an improved understanding of the drivers of wild meat use, successfully shift attitudes leading to a reduction in hunting, consumption, and local trade of wild meat in target (wild meat hunting hotspot) communities.
• Implementation of sustainable income-generating activities resulting in improved livelihoods and economic opportunities for target (wild meat hotspot) communities reduced dependency on wild meat.
• Market surveys have provided trend data on wild meat sales in target (wild meat hotspot) communities around Tsavo.
• Comprehensive monitoring of large carnivores (African wild dog, lion, cheetah, leopard, hyena spp.) and their prey in Tsavo established and generating both training opportunities and data on demography, snare- related mortality, and distribution and population trends