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.
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Kora National Park’s landscape and environment has been degraded over the past three decades with intense livestock incursions, commercial bush meat poaching, wildlife dispersal area loss, charcoal production, the burning and destruction of the Tana River forests and climate change. However, both the habitat and wildlife can recover with protection.
The Kora project is a multi-disciplinary approach to an environmental 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
The Trust’s long-term framework for Kora includes key biodiversity targets of Tana riverine ecosystem, Acacia-Commmiphora bushland, inselbergs and river ecosystems. Within these a complex of wildlife species persists against a variety of threats.
There is a huge amount of field work to be done in partnership with Kenya Wildlife Service to rehabilitate Kora and re-establish it as a functioning protected area. However, both the habitat and wildlife can recover with protection and we are totally committed to this historic project and will do our part to ensure its success.
