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Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) focuses on the conservation and preservation of Kenya’s biodiversity for future generations.
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Tourism & Enterprise -
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Research
Saving nature is at the very heart of what we do as KWS. As Kenya’s most eminent national wildlife conservation agency, we commit ourselves to providing leadership in wildlife conservation and management. Further we take cognizant that our conservation efforts are dependent on the quality and commitment of our staff and how they work with our stakeholders to achieve our mandate. We set high goals and provide the necessary resources and incentives to achieve them. We endeavor to create highly engaged, focused individuals from diverse backgrounds. A key thrust of our strategy is to continuously train our staff and develop their skills, while celebrating, respecting and encouraging diversity and inclusiveness in culture, ethnicity, gender, disability, education and religion. We have made it our mission to find solutions that save the marvelous array of life on our planet by applying the best science available and working closely with local communities.
Good governance is essential for our success, We create infrastructure to deliver good park management benefiting both wildlife and local communities. Properly managed parks make a direct contribution to the local and national economy.
Tourism in Kenya offers numerous benefits to the country. It generates foreign exchange earnings, creates employment opportunities, besides stimulating economic growth. Tourism also helps preserve and showcase Kenya’s rich cultural heritage, traditions and indigenous practices and values.
Enhance engagements with communities, county governments, and other government agencies, media, customers, development partners, private sector, researchers and other Stakeholders
Build partnerships to support conservation and reduce human wildlife conflict and other threats / challenges.
Engage the public, youth and communities through education and outreach
Parks are a choice of land use, and therefore local people need to benefit from their existence in order to value them. Our stakeholders and partners play a huge role in helping us to achieve our mandate. We will work with partners and stakeholders to meet the current and emerging challenges in wildlife conservation. These include individuals, Companies, Donors, civil society, researchers, communities, private and community conservancies, schools and other institutions of learning, development partners, multilateral environment agreement secretariats, tour operators and aviation industry.
The Aim of research in conservation is to be able to achieve practical solutions to conservation problems through original scientific research. The research team’s mission is to conduct research on the ecology and conservation of wildlife, other endangered species and their habitat, and contribute in addressing pertinent global problems facing biodiversity (e.g., climate change, habitat restoration, sustainable conservation and development, building local community resilience and adaptation to climate change, and human-wildlife conflicts etc.). In effort to realize its mission and fulfill its national mandate, the department places special emphasize on nonhuman primates and as a model to understand different facets of ecology and biodiversity conservation.
