Big Life’s camera traps capture every animal moving between Amboseli National Park and the Kimana Sanctuary, and the pictures show how these movements vary with the seasons. The tens of thousands of images also illuminate an extraordinary conservation success…
One main tar road cuts through the Amboseli ecosystem, and development along it previously threatened to block the vitally important Kimana Corridor. In a last-ditch effort to keep the area open for migrating wildlife, Big Life signed 30-year conservation easements in 2022 to secure the corridor where it crosses the road. We refer to this tiny gap as the ‘funnel’ – it is 800m long and only 46m wide (150ft) at its narrowest point.
In addition to keeping the corridor protected with leases and active ranger patrols, we also installed speed bumps to slow traffic, and installed solar-powered electric fencing to funnel animals to safety.
These 41 elephants, pictured here moving through the corridor at the crossing, are a living demonstration of the resilience of wild animals, and their ability to take advantage of even the smallest areas that we protect for them.
