18-24 August 2025
This week: Joint intelligence operations led to the recovery of over 28 snares and the arrest of 1 suspect with python skin // Rangers intercepted vehicles carrying illegal materials and logs // A suspect was arrested with 148 kg of sandalwood, and another operation recovered 153 kg abandoned at the scene // Rangers and drone units prevented elephant crop raids and pushed back elephants in several incidents, fence attendants made repairs // Elephants damaged community farms, water infrastructure, and private fences in multiple areas // A serval was rescued and treated for injuries by KWS vet teams

11-17 August 2025
This week: Joint operation led to the arrest of 1 suspect with 13 pieces of elephant tusks weighing 12kg, and 2 suspects with bushmeat // Rangers recovered 15 snares in two incidents and freed livestock entangled in snares // Rangers halted illegal borehole drilling, and responded to illegal logging and development attempts // Multiple incidents of elephants crossing the crop protection fence, damaging posts and wires; rangers and drone units pushed elephants away from settlements and prevented crop raids in several instances // Rangers responded to reports of injured zebra and giraffe, and monitored elephants causing crop damage 

08-10 August 2025
This week: Joint operations led to the arrest of 4 suspects in 3 incidents, including possession of bushmeat, sandalwood, and illegal logging equipment // Rangers and partners recovered a total of 46 snares in several incidents // Rangers and fence attendants responded to multiple elephant fence breaches, repairing damage and preventing crop raids in numerous instances // Rangers pushed elephants away from settlements and farmlands in several locations // Rangers and partners extinguished a fire in national park that had restarted after earlier suppression

28 July – 3 August 2025
This week: Joint operation led to the arrest of 2 suspects with 8 sacks of charcoal // Rangers intercepted multiple vehicles transporting construction materials without clear documentation, turning them back or escorting them away // Rangers responded to and pushed elephants away from crop protection fences and repaired damages in several incidents

21–27 July 2025
This week: Joint operations led to the recovery of 5 large snares // Rangers responded to multiple incidents of elephants entering the crop protection fence; fence attendants made repairs

14-20 July 2025
This week: Joint operation led to the arrest of 4 suspects in 3 incidents // Rangers responded to and pushed away elephant from farm and settlements in several instances, fence attendants made repairs.  

07-13 July 2025
This week: Big Life and partners conducted a joint operation to collar 8 elephants // Joint operation led to the arrest of 2 suspects // Rangers / drone unit prevented elephant crop raids in several instances // Rangers responded to the report of a herder that was injured by a lion.

30-06 June/July 2025
This week: Joint operation with partners to treat an injured elephant, rangers will continue to monitor // Rangers prevented elephant from crossing the crop protection fence in several instances // Rangers responded to report of elephant that charged and severely injured a person // Joint operation let to the arrest of 1 suspect for trespassing // Rangers recovered an old snare and 2 large snares // Rangers transported a community member to the hospital after a motorbike accident.

23-29 June 2025
This week: Rangers joint response led to the arrest of 6 suspects in 3 incidents // Rangers moved elephant away from lodge after pulling water pipes out // Rangers responded to the report of elephant crossing the crop protection fence, damages repaired // Joint operation with partners led to the successful movement of lion near settlements // Joint operation led to the shutdown of development on 9 farms that did not have relevant documents, more to follow // Rangers and drone unit pushed away elephant near human settlement.

16-22 June 2025
This week: Joint operation led to the treatment of an injured lion, monitoring to continue // Rangers pushed elephant away from settlements in several instances // Rangers prevented multiple crop raids // A joint operation led to the arrest of 4 suspects for illegal activity in national park // Rangers responded to a community report of a fire, together with community members, contained the fire // Another joint operation led to the arrest of 3 suspects with python skin // Rangers responded to a report of lion roaming near homesteads and pushed them away from the area

09-15 June 2025
This week: Joint operation led to the arrest of 1 suspect with 1 piece of ivory weighing 3kg // Rangers prevented elephant from crossing the crop protection fence in several instances during the week // Rangers located the previously injured elephant and reported condition ok, will continue to monitor // Information received about an injured lion, vet informed

02-08 June 2025
This week: Rangers responded to and transported a child who a giraffe knocked down, the child was treated at hospital and later discharged // Rangers responded to the report of elephant crossing the crop protection fence, damages repaired // Rangers responded to a report of a giraffe with an arrow on its neck, vet informed, searched for giraffe but were unsuccessful, more to follow // Rangers prevented elephant crop raids in several incidents // Rangers investigated the report of elephant that damaged water pipes and a water tank, community requested repairs // Rangers responded to 2 seperate reports of elephant near human settlements and pushed them away // Report of elephant with injury on head, rangers responded to investigate, thought to be an injury from a tree, rangers kept an eye on him and noted the injust was looking ok later in the week // Rangers located and removed 4 snares 

26-01 May / June 2025
This week:  Rangers halted equipment clearing vegetation for lack of relevant documents // Joint operation led to the arrest of 1 suspect for trespassing in national park // Rangers pushed elephant away from crop protection fence, fence attendants made repairs in several incidents // Joint operation led to the arrest of a suspect with illegal materials // Join operation led to the arrest of 2 suspects with elephant ivory weighing 10kg // Rangers prevented an elephant crop raid 

19-25 May 2025
This week: A joint operation led to the arrest of 3 suspects with 12 pieces of elephant tusk weighing 40+kgs // Arrested a man illegally collecting firewood // Rangers prevented elephant crop raids in several incidents // Joint operation led to the arrest of 2 suspects with 12kg of elephant tusk // Joint operation led to the arrest of 3 subjects in posessions of miraa from national park 

12-18 May 2025
This week: Rangers responded to a call about elephants with calves that were close to settlements and pushed them away and towards national park // Fence attendants made repairs to the crop protection fence after sustaining damage from elephant // Joint operation led to the arrest of 7 suspects with 122 bags of charcoal // Rangers pusehed away elephant form settlements in 3 incidents // Rangers prevented multiple crop raids // Rangers freed an adult giraffe entangled in a private fence // Joint operation led to the arrest of 1 suspect for unlawful posession of 15 logs from national park 

05-11 May 2025
This week: Rangers responded to several incidents of elephants crossing the crop proetection fence, fence attendants made multiple repairs to posts // Rangers made contact with people working on a farm and were ordered to leave as they had no relevant documents // Rangers responded to a vehicle accident with a giraffe, person was transported to local hospital and treated, the giraffe was not located // Rangers arrested a suspect with 5 bags of charcoal // Rangers prevented an elephant crop raid // Rangers located an 84 acre farm being cleared, more to follow // Joint operation response to a lion that killed a cow in a boma and injured the herder, herder was treated and discharged

28-04 April / May 2025
This week: Rangers participated in a joint operation to search for a lost child // Rangers intercepted 2 borehole drilling rigs without relevant documents // Rangers responded to the report of a human fatality by elephant at farm // Joint operation led to the arrest of a suspect for illegal logging // Later in the week, the lost child safely made it to a boma where rangers picked him up and returned him home 
 

21-27 April 2025
This week: A joint operation led to the arrest of 3 suspects for trespassing and harvesting sandalwood // Joint operation led to the recovery of 6 newly set snares // Joint operation led to the arrest of 3 suspects in 3 incidents for posession of mirra // Rangers pushed elephant away from settlement in 2 instances // Rangers prevented 5 hyenas from entering a settlement // Responded to the report of an injured giraffe, KWS/SWT vet responded to dart and treat wound 

14-20 April 2025
This week: Rangers responded to a report of a elephant that had charged herders and others near settlement, elephant not found // Rangers searched for a suspected sick elephant, but were unable to locate 2 days in a row // Rangers responded to a fire headed toward sanctuary, rangers successfully put it out // Elephant crossed the crop protected fence, and uprooted a gate post, repairs were made // Rangers prevented an elephant crop raid

07-13 April 2025
This week: Rangers conducted a joint operation in 2 incidents and arrested 2 people for harvesting miraa in a protected area // Rangers haulted active elephant crop raids in 2 instances 

01-06 April 2025
This week: Rangers conducted a joint operation and recovered 3 sacks of sandalwood  // Rangers moved away elephant from farm // Rangers responded to 2 seperate incidents of lost children, both were successfully reunited with parents 

25-31 March 2025
This week: Rangers prevented lion from entering bomas in two incidents // Joint operation led to the arrest of 2 suspects in national park //Rangers responded to the report of an injured elephant, unable to locate, more to follow // Elephants crossed the crop protection fence in several incidents, damages were repaired 

18-24 March 2025
This week: A joint operation led to the arrest of 1 suspect for charcoaling // Joint operation led to the recovery of 53 snares // Elephants crossed the crop protection fence in several instances during the week, repairs made to damages // Report received about an elephant with an injury, rangers to monitor // Rangers prevented elephant crop raids in several instances // Rangers reunited a young giraffe with its mother, after it was in a settlement area // Later in the week the elephant reported with an injury was darted and treated by partners, injury suspected to be a spear wound // Joint operation to dart and remove a collar from a lion 

11-17 March 2025
This week: A joint operation led to the recovery of 107 snares // Elephants crossed the crop protection fence in several incidents, damage was repaired // Rangers responded to and resolved a report of illegal temporary bomas // Rangers successfully moved away elephant from settlement with drone // Rangers prevented elephant crop raids in several instances

03-10 March 2025
This week: A report of an injured elephant led to a joint operation and successful treatment of an elephant with an ankle injury // Rangers participated in a joint operation response to a lion with cubs that was breaking into bomas to kill livestock, she was darted and collared // Joint operation led to the follow up of several development violations // Rangers responded to a fire and successfully put it out, 30 acres approximately burned // Rangers prevented multiple elephant crop raids // An elephant with an injury to its leg was reported, joint response led to determining the rangers would continue to monitor // Joint operation led to the confirmation of a fresh elephant carcass, cause of death unknown, no physical injuries, tusks recovered, vet took samples // Joint operation led to the arrest of 1 suspect with 74kg of sandalwood 

25-02 February / March 2025
This week: Rangers discovered a giraffe with a spear lodged in its side, KWS vet responded, darted, and treated the giraffe, but the prognosis for survival is guarded, rangers to monitor // Rangers arrested a suspect with giraffe meat // Rangers prevented elephant from crossing the crop protection fence in several instances // Joint operation led to the arrest of a suspect with 3kg of miraa // Rangers intercepted development equipment without relevant documents in several instances // Rangers responded to a wildebeest caught in a private fence and successfully freed it // Rangers responded to a 5 acre fire and successfully put it out