Kora
Today
In 2020, following the handover of The Mkomazi Project in Tanzania, the Trust returned to Kenya to focus on the rehabilitation of Kora National Park, continuing extensive discussions with KWS for the long term stewardship, conservation, environmental protection and sustainable development of Kora and to forward the joint objectives.
Kora’s landscape has been been degraded over the past three decades with intense livestock incursions, commercial bush meat poaching, the loss of its wildlife dispersal areas, charcoal production, the burning and destruction of the Tana River forests and climate change. However, the Kenya Wildlife Service has established a restoration programme. Together with the Trust, they are working on the long-term rehabilitation of the ecosystem, the protection of its habitat and wildlife and continuing its work in the adjacent communities.
The Kora project is a multi-disciplinary approach to an environmental rehabilitation programme encompassing the following:
- Infrastructure upgrades
- Reducing damage to the Kora ecosystem
- Strategic support for Kenya Wildlife Service
- Wildlife recovery programme
- Community outreach programme
- Tourism promotion
“Kora, so often overlooked and misrepresented, is well worth every effort to sustain it as a wild place in its own right and as a value added buffer to the Meru National Park. Tony Fitzjohn has the vision, the energy and the expertise to put this together, but he needs the support of all of us if success is to be assured.”
Dr. Richard Leakey, 2017
