2021-03-01 14:56:06 GMT2021-03-01 22:56:06(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
NAIROBI, March 1 (Xinhua) The LUMO Community Wildlife Conservancy, located in Taita-Taveta county in Southwest Kenya, is home to elephants, lions, buffaloes, antelopes, and also a core target of poachers.
To monitor and protect the conservancy, 16 community rangers worked through day and night.
The conservancy covers an area of 46,000 acres. Monitoring of the conservancy is a labor-intensive process and rangers can cover up to 40 km per day in their patrols.
Ernest Righa, one of the 16 community rangers tasked with monitoring and protecting the conservancy from poachers, told Xinhua that through the use of the spatial monitoring and reporting tool (SMART) and Cyber Tracker mobile app, patrolling the expansive terrain is now much easier and more efficient.