By David Western

ACP teamed up with the Amboseli Ecosystem Trust, Kenya Wildlife Service, the African Conservation Centre and Big Life in winning support from the NAGA Foundation to restore fever tree and tortilis woodland in and around Amboseli National Park damaged by many years of heavy elephant concentration. The program will also restore pastures damaged around permanent livestock settlements by setting a series of traditional olopololi, calf grazing areas protected by thorn fencing.

The start-up funding in the first year will cover the cost of setting up and monitoring three high-level electric fences that exclude only elephants, allowing seedlings held in check by heavy browsing to mature and regenerate the once abundant woodlands of Amboseli. More details of the restoration program will be posted shortly.

The restoration plots will be based on the design of the Ilmarishari restoration plot set up by ACP in 2001 to restore fever tree woodlands lost to heavy elephant browsing in the national park. Many bird species, impala and lesser kudu that had disappeared in the area have recolonized the restored woodland.

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Amboseli Habitats to be Restored

Authored by : David Western
Posted on September 22, 2015

ACP teamed up with the Amboseli Ecosystem Trust, Kenya Wildlife Service, the African Conservation Centre and Big Life in winning support from the NAGA Foundation to restore fever tree and tortilis woodland in and around Amboseli National Park damaged by many years of heavy elephant concentration. The program will also restore pastures damaged around permanent livestock settlements by setting a series of traditional olopololi, calf grazing areas protected by thorn fencing.

The start-up funding in the first year will cover the cost of setting up and monitoring three high-level electric fences that exclude only elephants, allowing seedlings held in check by heavy browsing to mature and regenerate the once abundant woodlands of Amboseli. More details of the restoration program will be posted shortly.

The restoration plots will be based on the design of the Ilmarishari restoration plot set up by ACP in 2001 to restore fever tree woodlands lost to heavy elephant browsing in the national park. Many bird species, impala and lesser kudu that had disappeared in the area have recolonized the restored woodland.

By David Western

ACP teamed up with the Amboseli Ecosystem Trust, Kenya Wildlife Service, the African Conservation Centre and Big Life in winning support from the NAGA Foundation to restore fever tree and tortilis woodland in and around Amboseli National Park damaged by many years of heavy elephant concentration. The program will also restore pastures damaged around permanent livestock settlements by setting a series of traditional olopololi, calf grazing areas protected by thorn fencing.

The start-up funding in the first year will cover the cost of setting up and monitoring three high-level electric fences that exclude only elephants, allowing seedlings held in check by heavy browsing to mature and regenerate the once abundant woodlands of Amboseli. More details of the restoration program will be posted shortly.

The restoration plots will be based on the design of the Ilmarishari restoration plot set up by ACP in 2001 to restore fever tree woodlands lost to heavy elephant browsing in the national park. Many bird species, impala and lesser kudu that had disappeared in the area have recolonized the restored woodland.

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Posted on September 22, 2015

By David Western

ACP teamed up with the Amboseli Ecosystem Trust, Kenya Wildlife Service, the African Conservation Centre and Big Life in winning support from the NAGA Foundation to restore fever tree and tortilis woodland in and around Amboseli National Park damaged by many years of heavy elephant concentration. The program will also restore pastures damaged around permanent livestock settlements by setting a series of traditional olopololi, calf grazing areas protected by thorn fencing.

The start-up funding in the first year will cover the cost of setting up and monitoring three high-level electric fences that exclude only elephants, allowing seedlings held in check by heavy browsing to mature and regenerate the once abundant woodlands of Amboseli. More details of the restoration program will be posted shortly.

The restoration plots will be based on the design of the Ilmarishari restoration plot set up by ACP in 2001 to restore fever tree woodlands lost to heavy elephant browsing in the national park. Many bird species, impala and lesser kudu that had disappeared in the area have recolonized the restored woodland.

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