May, 2010

Animal Care and Protection

Following the bungled 2007 Kenya General Elections and the ensuing violence in early 2008, we responded to the suffering and distress of 10,439 animals that experience displacement, abandonment, disease or injuries. ANAW mobilized partners and resources and began emergency response to animals in Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps where their impoverished violence affected owners had taken...

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Anti-Poaching De-Snaring

In strategic collaboration with the Kenya Wildlife Service, the anti poaching de-snaring which involves patrols, searching and removing snares, rescuing snared animals and apprehending poachers who lay the wire snares in National Parks, National Reserves and Ranches has considerably progressed. Since the project was rolled out in 2007, over 10 animals have been rescued alive from snares in over...

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Campaigns

In December 2008, ANAW led other organizations in successfully lobbying the public and the media to pressure the government to cancel a much publicized bull fighting sport in Nairobi. Profiteers intended to popularized and commercialize the barbaric blood sport staged in western Kenya as a cultural event. We are still involved in this campaign to ensure the untold suffering of the animals...

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Networking

In our work, we actively involve communities and experience had us realize that working together with other like minded organizations as well as key stakeholders like media and government is critical to making success. Through the Kenya Coalition for Conservation and Management- a caucus of community conservation groups across Kenya, we are progressively pursuing the wildlife conservation and...

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