Communities for Conservation | Sheldrick Wildlife Trust

Ajouté : 2026-05-25

[00:00:00]We cannot win the fight against poaching without engaging the communities. All the challenges to conservation they are human related.

[00:00:10]My name is Samuel Munyao, community outreach officer, Sheldrick Wildlife Trust.

[00:00:17]We've got four areas of support ranging from education, health care, environmental protection, and local employment.

[00:00:26]70% of Kenya's population are youths.

[00:00:28]This presents to us a unique opportunity to groom generations that are pro-environmentalists.

[00:00:36]A field trip it's a conservation education [music] kind of an engagement.

[00:00:41]We engage the learners because we believe that they are the future ambassadors to conservation. So, we take them for [music] game drives, we sit them down for lectures, we uh teach them, and we hear their voices, and their role that they can play when it comes to environmental protection.

[00:00:59]We run a beehive project. A bee fence it's an elephant mitigation [music] tool. Honey is doing very well. When an elephant approaches the farm, uh it will be kept away by the buzzing sound of bees.

[00:01:12]After harvest, uh we buy the honey from them. They be motivated to continue [music] maintaining and taking care of the project.

[00:01:21]We also do uh football donations.

[00:01:25]They build their community spirit, and this will act as platforms to send the message home for them what we are doing on wildlife conservation.

[00:01:36]The trust is securing a future for the wildlife and their habitats.

[00:01:41]The future of conservation would lie with coexistence.

[00:01:46]We cannot sit down and watch as we lose wildlife.

[00:01:51]We cannot sit down and watch as we pollute the environment which is safe for our wildlife.

[00:01:59]We cannot sit down and wait to lose the wildlife which cannot speak for themselves.

[00:02:06]We are out to speak for them because they have the right to live just like humans.