KWS moves to tame conflicts in L Victoria

The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) has launched a drive to tame the rising cases of human wildlife conflicts in Lake Victoria.

Through a drive dubbed ‘Safe Access to Water’, KWS plans to create awareness on how people living within the lake basin can derive economic benefits from the water body without being in conflict with wildlife.

KWS Senior Assistant Director in charge of the Western Conservation area Ms Catherine Wambani said the project to be implemented jointly with the 13 county governments in the area will see the number of human wildlife conflicts cases reduced.

Wambani said through partnership with the devolved units, Community Based Organisations (CBOs) and members of the public, sensitization drives on how to coexist with wildlife shall be scaled up across the region.

This, she said, was a long term measure to reverse the negative effects of the menace and at the same time save the agency millions of shillings in compensation fees to victims.