ABOUT TCP
What We Do
The Tsavo Cheetah Project is working on research, cheetah monitoring and community conservation
programs to protect the cheetahs within the Tsavo ecosystem, focusing on locations
which pose multiple threats to their survival, both present and future.
Would you like to become involved by assisting us in protecting the cheetahs of Tsavo? (Back to Home page)
We need to expand and continue research and programs in multiple locations of priority. Two present focus areas of conservation research and community conservation are:
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Assisting with human–cheetah conflict investigations and solutions which always involve community input;
Sponsor camera kits to enable camera trap placement at high priority locations on private or group ranch land where cheetah presence and livestock loss have continued to be reported;
Help meet transportation needs for these locations within the Tsavo ecosystem. In an area of 40,000 kilomteres², mobility and vehicle maintenance and operation are paramount to our work.
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Your help with cheetah monitoring provides:
$50 (two weeks), $100 (one month), $200 (two months) $600 (6 months), $1,200 (12 months) or more of cheetah monitoring.
Research Study: you can sponsor a camera trap station. This will enable the required expansion of our current study area and include the impact of the SGR (Standard Gauge Railway) on Cheetah movements and human-cheetah conflict. We need to add four more stations (consisting of 4 camera units, each) in known or suspected areas of cheetah presence. In late September we intend to expand to an additional grid. Results of this larger study will yield important data on the implications of the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) and its gap corridors (concrete underpasses) and fencing on the southern Tsavo East cheetah population, while also providing data on road use and dispersal patterns. We will also correlate findings on the presence of cheetahs and human-cheetah conflict on private ranches across the Mombasa road into wildlife corridors which potentially connect to the Tsavo West cheetah population, in the vicinity of the Kasigau wildlife corridor.
Results will facilitate management recommendations and decisions of Kenya Wildlife Service, the Kenyan Highway Authority (KeNHA) and additional companies. The main goal of the study is to ensure continued accessibility and reasonable safety for the connecting cheetah population in this location in an effort to preserve genetic viability and enhance conservation of the species.
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Your funds for camera kit sponsorship include:
Equipment: $340/kit; 2 kits per location;
Transport (petrol and local driver), to and from each grid - $60 average / month; 6 months: $360, 12 months: $720;
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Camera Watchman: $40 / month; 6 months: $240; 12 months:$480,;
We welcome contributions to purchase the individual equipment above or to support out fieldwork and transport costs.
The project will continue field activities and programs in these locations and expand
to other ranches / homesteads of high priority.
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On behalf of the Tsavo Cheetah Project, Asante sana (Thank you), for supporting our important research and programs to protect and conserve the Tsavo cheetah population.
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