Conserving the Elephants in Kenya-Tanzania Borderlands Conference materials download.

Cross-border collaboration is vital for conserving the large elephant population in Tanzania-Kenya borderlands and connecting the fragmented herds spread among the many national parks, reserves and community wildlife areas in the region.

The borderlands elephant population is the best studied and most famous in all Africa and a key attraction in the $1.3 billion tourism industry of Tanzania and Kenya.

Following a three-day International Conference on Biodiversity, Land-use and Climate Change held on September 15-17, 2010 in Nairobi, a special policy session of the conference was held to consolidate the policy findings and recommendations arising in the course of the conference. The policy session was convened by the African Centre for Technology Studies and chaired by the Executive Director, Professor Judy Wakhungu. A team made up of Bernard Agwanda, Patricia Awori, James Isiche, Steve Itela and Steve Njumbi compiled the findings and prepared the draft report.