ACC has produced an elephant suitability map of the South Rift, plotting out areas most suitable for elephants, the wet and dry season movement pathways, potential sanctuary areas and no-go areas. On 4 of July 2006, the African Conservation Centre with funding from US Fish and Wildlife Service collared one elephant in the Magadi area with the aim of learning 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. A second elephant was collared in the same area in 2008 (the aim is to eventually have a total of four elephants collared).
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 program goal is to create space for dispersing elephant herds within community lands along and across the Kenya/Tanzania border.