{"id":2251,"date":"2022-12-19T15:22:12","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T15:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savetheelephants.org\/?page_id=2251"},"modified":"2023-07-10T13:11:48","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T12:11:48","slug":"wildlife-corridors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/savetheelephants.org\/our-work\/impact\/coexistence-2\/wildlife-corridors\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildlife corridors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wildlife, including elephants, are facing threats to their natural habitats as human populations expand and infrastructure development accelerates. As a result, there is increased pressure on people, wildlife and livestock to share the landscape and available resources.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As part of our mission to secure a future for the world\u2019s largest land mammal, Save the Elephants has teamed up with the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wyssacademy.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wyss Academy for Nature<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to safeguard wildlife and livestock movement corridors in northern Kenya. This will help prevent the fragmentation of this fast-changing landscape.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Analysing more than 20 years of radio tracking data from almost two hundred tracked elephants, STE has been able to identify major migratory routes being used by elephants which are now under threat of being blocked because of human pressure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A key focus of STE\u2019s work involves engaging with local communities about the importance of corridors and working with them and other stakeholders, such as government and conservation partners, towards sustainable ways of protecting corridors, with the ultimate goal for the communities to secure and gazette them into law with the support of the County Governments and National Lands Commission.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read how one collared bull\u2019s journey resulted in a 28-kilometer corridor in Mt. Kenya being charted and built by clicking <a href=\"https:\/\/savetheelephants.org\/news\/mountain-bull\/\">here.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_36201\" style=\"width: 1240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36201\" class=\"wp-image-36201\" src=\"https:\/\/savetheelephants.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Wildlife-livestock-corridor-patrolled-by-Mama-Tembos-\u00a9-Jane-Wynyard_Save-the-Elephants-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1230\" height=\"820\" srcset=\"https:\/\/savetheelephants.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Wildlife-livestock-corridor-patrolled-by-Mama-Tembos-\u00a9-Jane-Wynyard_Save-the-Elephants-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/savetheelephants.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Wildlife-livestock-corridor-patrolled-by-Mama-Tembos-\u00a9-Jane-Wynyard_Save-the-Elephants-1-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/savetheelephants.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Wildlife-livestock-corridor-patrolled-by-Mama-Tembos-\u00a9-Jane-Wynyard_Save-the-Elephants-1-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/savetheelephants.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Wildlife-livestock-corridor-patrolled-by-Mama-Tembos-\u00a9-Jane-Wynyard_Save-the-Elephants-1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/savetheelephants.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Wildlife-livestock-corridor-patrolled-by-Mama-Tembos-\u00a9-Jane-Wynyard_Save-the-Elephants-1-2048x1367.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/savetheelephants.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Wildlife-livestock-corridor-patrolled-by-Mama-Tembos-\u00a9-Jane-Wynyard_Save-the-Elephants-1-800x534.jpg 800w, https:\/\/savetheelephants.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Wildlife-livestock-corridor-patrolled-by-Mama-Tembos-\u00a9-Jane-Wynyard_Save-the-Elephants-1-600x401.jpg 600w, https:\/\/savetheelephants.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Wildlife-livestock-corridor-patrolled-by-Mama-Tembos-\u00a9-Jane-Wynyard_Save-the-Elephants-1-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1230px) 100vw, 1230px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-36201\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Jane Wynyard<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wildlife, including elephants, are facing threats to their natural habitats as human populations expand and infrastructure development accelerates. As a result, there is increased pressure on people, wildlife and livestock to share the landscape and available resources.\u00a0 As part of our mission to secure a future for the world\u2019s largest land mammal, Save the Elephants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":37683,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savetheelephants.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savetheelephants.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savetheelephants.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savetheelephants.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savetheelephants.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/savetheelephants.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2251\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savetheelephants.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savetheelephants.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}