The long-term conservation of wildlife in northern Kenya depends upon the support of local communities and a collective approach between communities, government and non-government organisations to improve security for wildlife and enhance livelihoods for rural people who share their land with wildlife.

The benefits of these community conservation initiatives are becoming apparent as they create an enabling environment for economic development including tourism and improved livestock marketing.

The goal of this project is to improve security and monitoring of elephants in the Milgis Lugga and Ndoto Mountains by:

1. Enhancing and supporting wildlife security and monitoring by community scouts;
2. providing equipment necessary for wildlife monitoring and surveillance;
3. enhancing the capacity of community scouts in wildlife and security monitoring; and
4. creating a radio communication network between the Milgis Trust and neighbouring

community conservation projects, the Kenya Wildlife Service, Kenya Police and Lewa Wildlife Conservancy to ensure effective response to security breaches.