ナショナルジオグラフィックのインスタグラム(natgeo) - 10月10日 17時02分

children from the Ol Girgiri school Laikipia, northern Kenya conservation club, viewing hippo and elephant, at The Mpala Research Centre, Northern Kenya - photograph by David Chancellor @chancellordavid

The Mpala Research Centre, Northern Kenya hosts children from Twelve schools in Laikipia County who participate in the Northern Kenya Conservation Clubs. The Conservation Clubs aim to connect children to their environment teaching them to understand the relationships between wildlife, their landscape, and their lives. All the children live in pastoral communities with a long tradition of using the environment to sustain themselves and their herds. However, increasing numbers of people and livestock have put pressure on the environment and wildlife. The lessons and projects carried out in the clubs provide students with knowledge about the world around them and the effects of their behaviour on the habitats on which they depend. Mpala is strongly committed to using research to benefit the surrounding communities, the nation of Kenya, and global conservation efforts as a whole. Mpala hosts multiple educational outreach programs in order to tackle issues of human-wildlife conflict and thus ensure that both conservation and human-livelihood goals are met. Furthermore, Kenya actively supports the involvement of Kenyan nationals in this process, and Kenyan scientists are a vital part of the research conducted at Mpala.

If wildlife is to survive at all, it’s vital that we allow those who live alongside the wildlife that we prize so dearly, to both share in it’s incredible beauty, and any income and benefits generated from it.

To see more of my work and projects follow me here @chancellordavid @ナショナルジオグラフィック and The Mpala Research Centre @mpalalive #wildlife #conserving #conservation #stoppoaching @everydayextinction #fightingextinction #endextinction #elephant #ivory #rhino #northernkenya #Kenya #africa @princeton_university @kenyawildlifeservice @スミソニアン博物館 @kinetic_six @hellokiosk @San Diego Zoo @exploreorg @annenbergfdn

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