Since our establishment, we recognize that most of the domestic animals in Africa are owned by poor communities and that vast majority of wild animals share their habitat with the communities. Our mandate is therefore to work with communities to ensure that they take the responsibility for animal welfare and biodiversity conservation.
In line with our mission, ANAW has and continues to be involved in projects that span from policy formulation, animal rescue (both wild and domestic), protection, care and management as well as animal intervention activities for sustainable development.
Our Policy work involves being in the forefront to lobby policy makers and political leaders as well as mobilizing and sensitizing media and stakeholders with a view to pushing for the formulation and implementation of effective animal welfare and wildlife conservation policy and legal frameworks. We continue to pursue an effective legal framework for the Management and Conservation of Wildlife, which should clearly address sticky related issues such as human-wildlife conflict, poaching, sport hunting and compensation for communities living in wildlife regions.
Environmental importance cannot be gainsaid. ANAW is working closely with communities and stakeholders to check and reverse the rapid decimation of Lake Naivasha, a fresh water body relied upon by over 400 bird species, wild animals and the neighboring agricultural and pastoral communities. We are also engaging Coastal Waatha and Taita Peoples in our seeking for sustainable alternatives to bush meat trade and habitat destruction which is rampant in the wildlife rich Kenya’s coastal region.
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