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Emmanuel Ngumbi, Wildlife Management, Scholarship University of Nairobi, Kenya

 
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Wildlife Management, Post Graduate Studies

"Mine has been a longtime dream which has come true. I remember from the time we met in the year 2001.. you told me I can make it...I have grown...gained in confidence and wealth of knowledge.."

Emmanuel was born in Machakos District in South Eastern Kenya. This is a semi-arid area and the main Economic activity is subsistence crop farming.

When Eli met Emmanuel in 2001, he was a Conservation Education Officer at the Giraffe Centre. He already had University education and Eli encouraged him to aim higher in his career. He decided to study for a master's degree and WildiZe enabled him realize his dream. WildiZe Foundation provided Emmanuel with a scholarship for a masters degree in Wildlife Management at the University of Nairobi. Emmanuel is now the head of education at the Giraffe Centre in Nairobi.



About Giraffe Center

The African Fund for Endangered Wildlife Kenya (A.F.E.W. Kenya) also known as the Giraffe Centre is a non-governmental, non-profit making organization, which was founded by Betty and Jock Leslie-Melville in 1979. This was in a bid to save the endangered Rothschild Giraffe, which had lost its natural habitat in Western Kenya to agriculture and there were only 130 left in the wild.

The primary objective of A.F.E.W ‘s Giraffe Centre is to sensitize Kenyans, especially the youth on the importance of conserving nature and the environment so that they can take the initiative of preserving their own biodiversity.

School children who visit the Centre are able to have an unforgettable and thrilling experience of coming into close contact with the giraffes by feeding them and touching their tongues! For most of these children it is their first time to see a live giraffe! After that awesome experience, they are able to listen to a lecture on conservation, watch an exciting wildlife film and go for a guided nature walk in the sanctuary where they learn about the different types of plants, trees, birds, and other wildlife which they may come across.

This programme is of immense popularity with the number of school children visiting the Centre having risen from 800 in 1983 to over 54,000 in current years.

For more information about Giraffe Center http://www.giraffecenter.org/





 

FAST FACTS:

Sustainable wildlife management is especially important in Africa for two reasons. One, the majority of food production comes from subsistence farming on a local level, and two, in countries such as Kenya, the major source of income is tourism. If wildlife is not correctly managed, the local people will not be able to farm efficiently, and tourism will dwindle as a source of economic prosperity.

There are two major approaches to wildlife management in Africa today; conservation through protection and conservation through utilization.

Kenya's wildlife policy follows the theory of conservation through protection, whereas Zimbabwe's policy is consistent with conservation through utilization.

Although Kenya's policy of protection achieved some initial success, it is becoming apparent that conservation through utilization is currently the most effective way to manage wildlife.

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