COMMUNITY OUTREACH MONTHLY REPORT
FEBRUARY 2018 SUMMARY: One main goal of The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust is community engagement on conservation matters. This is achieved through educating the community on the importance of environmental conservation to ensure sustainability especially to wildlife species. In February 2018, the Community Outreach team improved the school trip program by coming up with lectures on environmental conservation, aimed at exposing theoretical knowledge on conservation before the practical knowledge in the protected areas, additionally, the team have improved the tree seedling conditions in the nursery, to ensure high production of saplings to the neighbouring schools. The team also managed to clean the biological filter in the fish pond in order to maintain high water quality in the re-circulating system. Replacements of worn out Lucie lamps were also given to community solar groups to ensure indoor lighting instead of kerosene lamps are used which tend to be expensive and unfriendly to the environment.
EDUCATION LECTURES The DSWT community team conducted a lecture on importance of wildlife, challenges facing wildlife in their natural ecosystems as well as the role of man in conservation to expose students to their role as future managers. Name of school
Syusyani secondary
Date when lecture was conducted
22nd Feb 2018
Total number of audience
112
The lecture was well received by students and commended the best by the school heads. It was said the lecture fully covered a whole topic on their curriculum syllabus on wildlife and tourism.
COMMUNITY SOLAR GROUPS Out of the 7 groups the DSWT has partnered with, 2 groups provided some worn out Lucie lamps to be replaced with new ones. We were able to supply 13 lamps for 2 groups.
Date of issue 09/2/2018
20/2/2018
20/2/2018
Name of group Unyeeo kyusiani group Kimbuni kyusiani group Unyeeo group
Lamps received 7
Lamps issued 7
4
4
2
2
FISH POND Our fish pond uses a biological filter, to provide a conducive environment for the fish to grow in a natural environment with minimal disturbance. The filter helps in maintaining water quality in the re-circulating system before it is discharged from the fish pond to water seedlings. We have managed to clean the whole biological filter to remove suspended solids, excess ammonia and to provide conducive environment for bacterial activity. This is aimed at providing high yields of fish for both local and regional markets in the neighbouring communities.
TREE NURSERY The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust has worked closely with neighbouring schools through seasonal supply of saplings to help boost their environment. This has greatly helped in encouraging children to take care of the natural heritage as well as in building in them the aspect of conservation as future conservationists. We’ve managed to come up with 3 main seedbeds with at least 900 seedlings to be supplied to degraded areas inside the park and to the schools neighbouring Tsavo Conservation Area(TCA).
seedbeds 1 2 3
Species Azandrachta indica Melia volkensii Adenium obesum
No of seedlings 376 178 350
The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust is reliant on your kind support in order to keep our community outreach projects running. For more information about these projects please visit www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.com/community or email info@dswt.org