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An indigenous African conservation initiative:  ACC’s primary aim is to bring together the people and skills needed to build East Africa’s capacity to conserve wildlife. Its conservation programs are based on a 5-pronged approach.

CONSERVATION STRATEGY
ACC brings together the people and skills needed to build East Africa 's capacity to conserve wildlife through sound science, local initiatives and good governance.
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PROGRAM
AREAS
ACC’s work has focuses mainly in the Amboseli ecosystem, the Mara ecosystem and the Southern Rift Valley. In these areas, ACC has established wildlife associations, land trusts, wildlife sanctuaries, ecotourism lodges and community associations.
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PUBLICATIONS
ACC contributes to national and international advances in conservation through research, policy development, workshops and publications.
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Shompole Community Trust in Kenya scoops the Equator prize - 2007
The Shompole Group Ranch has received the prestigious international United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Equator Initiative Award in business and biodiversity in recognition of an outstanding community-driven biodiversity-based business: This award comes with a monetary prize of Sh2 million ($30,000).

Wildlife policy review paper - May 2007
The paucity of data on wildlife trends in protected areas compared to non-protected areas has sparked considerable debate in Kenya and Africa-wide about the rapidity of losses and the relative merits of parks, consumptive utilization and community-based conservation in stemming the losses.

Elephant suitability mapping - March 2007
We have made great progress in producing a first draft of an elephant suitability map of the South Rift. The ultimate goal is to plot out areas most suitable for elephants, the wet and dry season movement pathways, potential sanctuary areas and no-go areas.

Elephants in Kenya’s South Rift: Bridging the Information Gap - January 2007
The elephant population in Kenya has gone through various changes. In 1973, the population was about 167,000 but his number declined to about 19,000 in 1989. The main reason behind this decline was poaching. The creation of Kenya Wildlife Service in 1990 increased security within protected areas which significantly reduced poaching. The bigger problem facing elephant in Kenya now is not poaching but rather congestion within parks. It is now estimated that some two thirds of all elephants regularly move outside parks causing damage to people’s property and loss of human life. The programme goal is to create space for dispersing elephant herds within community lands along and across the Kenya/Tanzania border.
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NEW PUBLICATION – THE OPEN RANGELANDS - October 2006
The future of the open rangelands:  This book is based on an exchange of ideas and visits between the East African nomadic Maasai pastoralists, and the American Southwest cowboys on landscape-scale rangeland management.  Welcome to this unique exchange of “The two Cowboys”.

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Copies of the book can be obtained from:
African Conservation Centre PO Box 62844-00200, Nairobi, KENYA or
ACTS Press PO Box 45917-00100, Nairobi, KENYA

Elephant Collaring in Magadi - July 2006
On 4 of July 2006, the African Conservation Centre with funding from US Fish and Wildlife Service carried out an exercise to collar one elephant in the Magadi area (located in the south rift valley region). The aim of the project, which eventually will have four elephants collared, is to learn their ecology and to mitigate effects of their presence in the South Rift region where they are re-establishing their former range having re-appeared after a 20 year absence.

Monitoring Rangelands by Community Game Scouts - June 2006
ACC has been organizing formal training workshops for the community scouts in Amboseli and developing training manuals covering topics such as ecology, monitoring, tourism and human wildlife conflict.

African Conservation Centre donates GPS units and Bicycles to game scouts - May 2006
May 2nd 2006 was a great day when African Conservation Centre (ACC) presented 8 Global Positioning System (GPS) units and 8-bicycles to the South Rift Association of Land Owners (SORALO) for the purpose of resource monitoring by game scouts in south rift of Kenya.