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Covering four percent of Kenya's landmass, the...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eAs Kenya's elephant population continues to dwindle, conservationists are providing alternative sources of income to desperate people to deter them from joining the illegal wildlife trade. \u003cbr/\u003eCovering four percent of Kenya's landmass, the Tsavo National Park reaches almost 21,000 square kilometres (13,000 square miles) and is home to Kenya's largest elephant population. \u003cbr/\u003eCurrently, an estimated 11,000 elephants live here, but experts are warning that in as few as 10 years, wild elephants may no longer roam the Kenyan savannah. \u003cbr/\u003eThere has been a marked increase in elephant poaching in recent years, driven by growing demand and rising prices for ivory from Asia. \u003cbr/\u003eIn 2013, 13.5 tonnes of ivory were recovered in Kenya. Interpol says this is just a fraction of what is out there.\u003cbr/\u003eThe worldwide illegal wildlife trade is estimated to be worth up to 20 billion US dollars every year, according to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). \u003cbr/\u003eThe poachers smuggle ivory out of Kenya via the same routes as other products of high-end wildlife and environmental crime, such as rhinoceros horn and illegally traded timber.\u003cbr/\u003eTim Christophersen co-ordinates work on forests and climate change for the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). He estimates that five percent of the world's remaining elephants are killed each year - that's up to 100 elephants per day.\u003cbr/\u003e\"In Africa, an estimated twenty to twenty-five thousand elephants are being killed every year. This are sometimes up to a hundred elephants per day out of a total population of around four hundred and fifty thousand, so this can simply not continue. Otherwise, we will lose the elephants in the wild in a little over a decade from now.\"\u003cbr/\u003eMany elephant poachers resort to wildlife crime because of a lack of sustainable employment in their own communities. \u003cbr/\u003eThat's why conservation company Wildlife Works is trying to disrupt the trend by employing locals as park rangers. \u003cbr/\u003eSince the start of the project in 1997, 120 people have been trained to work as rangers in the park. \u003cbr/\u003eThe project gives much-needed work to would be poachers, but also presents challenges to the new recruits. \u003cbr/\u003eEric Sawe, a head ranger at Wildlife Works, says his troops don't have the firepower to fight commercial poachers:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Commercial poaching, for instance, they come in using sophisticated weapons. They are using guns. My rangers do not - they are not armed - so when we have an encounter with them - and we have encountered with them not one or two, (but) several times in the bush while we are on our patrols - you understand what you can feel when you are in an encounter with somebody with a sophisticated weapon, when you don't have. So that is the greatest problem I have at the moment, that is the elephant poaching.\"\u003cbr/\u003eCombating the problem of elephant poaching goes far beyond the capabilities of individual rangers. \u003cbr/\u003eThe UNEP says the illegal wildlife trade has connections to organised crime syndicates and rebel militias.\u003cbr/\u003eYet many elephants are killed with modest poison arrows shot by desperate local poachers. \u003cbr/\u003eThe carcass of one large bull, skin still intact, remains undisturbed by scavengers - a sign of poison in the animal's system. Only poachers and insects have touched the fallen elephant.\u003cbr/\u003e\"At this site, we lost a very old bull elephant, who was passing through the conservancy, to poachers. He was part of a group of three. Unfortunately the poachers were able to shoot all three. One fell here - the bull behind me. Two other bulls scattered and eventually succumbed to the wounds about three kilometres from this site. The poachers were able to remove these tusks and were able to flee with them, unfortunately, and we were able to recover the tusks from the other two bulls that fell,\" says Bryan Adkins, a director at Wildlife Works.\u003cbr/\u003eIn 2014 alone, 59 elephants have died due to poaching in the greater Tsavo area. \u003cbr/\u003eIn addition to the employment drive, the UN and Wildlife Works have partnered in an attempt to reduce the trade in illegal charcoal. \u003cbr/\u003eThey are offsetting over one million tons of carbon emissions every year for the next 30 years. In places like the Tsavo National Park, trees are assigned a cash value according to their carbon content.\u003cbr/\u003eRob Dodson, a Wildlife Works Vice President who works at the Rukinga Wildlife Sanctuary in the Tsavo area, says the carbon offset route isn't smooth. \u003cbr/\u003eTo many poor communities, the immediate financial incentive of turning a tree into charcoal is more attractive than the delayed reward of preserving the tree as a carbon offset.\u003cbr/\u003e\"We're competing with charcoal and those things in a way. You know, a lot of our community meetings are held under a big tree. We are able at that meeting to measure the tree, to work out its height and its diameter spread, and then we can work out how many tonnes of carbon are in that tree. We can then work out the value of that tree as charcoal, and the value of that tree traded as a carbon asset, as a carbon credit, as a verified emission reduction. And then the community can make a decision on whether or not to harvest that tree and other trees like it to make charcoal - money for today - or use it as a natural resource as a building block for their financial security in the future,\" says Dodson. \u003cbr/\u003eCreating industry may provide a more tangible solution. Wildlife Works is using the carbon offset money to employ people like tailor Nicholas Kisimu, providing a career alternative to both poaching and charcoal production.\u003cbr/\u003e\"If it were not for this job, I'd be in the forest making charcoal or even poaching wildlife,\" says Kisimu. \u003cbr/\u003eSince 2005, the project has employed more than 350 people in the local community in areas such as tailoring, crafts, agricultural work and community outreach.\u003cbr/\u003eAll 38 African countries with elephant populations have adopted the CITES African Elephant Action Plan, which aims to coordinate action to protect the species. \u003cbr/\u003eThe action plan's top priority is to reduce the illegal killing of elephants and the illegal trade in elephant products. It needs 100 million US dollars' worth of funding over a three-year period.\u003cbr/\u003eBut the African Elephant Fund, which was set up to finance the plan, has received only 600-thousand US dollars since it was established in 2011. \u003cbr/\u003eContributions have come from the governments of China, France, Germany, the Netherlands, the UK and South Africa.\u003cbr/\u003eThe International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), an animal conservation and welfare charity, says that if poaching were to end, then the resources spent on combating the illegal ivory trade could be spent elsewhere, including on projects helping wildlife and local communities to live side by side for the benefit of all.  \u003cbr/\u003eFor now, though, the battle is far from over.  \u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003eTsavo National Park, Kenya, 19th June 2014\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide of elephant in Tsavo National Park at sunrise\u003cbr/\u003e2. Close of monkey \u003cbr/\u003e3. Various of elephant at sunrise \u003cbr/\u003e4. Various of elephants in daylight\u003cbr/\u003e5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Tim Christophersen, Senior Programme Officer, Forests and Climate Change Division of Environmental Policy Implementation, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP):\u003cbr/\u003e\"In Africa, an estimated twenty to twenty five thousand (20,000-25,000) elephants are being killed every year. This is sometimes up to a hundred (100) elephants per day out of a total population of around four hundred fifty thousand (450,000), so this can simply not continue. Otherwise, we will lose the elephants in the wild in a little over a decade from now.\"\u003cbr/\u003e6. Various of head ranger at Wildlife Works briefing team of rangers\u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Eric Sawe, Head Ranger, Wildlife Works:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Commercial poaching, for instance, they come in using sophisticated weapons. They are using guns. My rangers do not - they are not armed - so when we have an encounter with them - and we have encountered with them not one or two, (but) several times in the bush while we are on our patrols - you understand what you can feel when you are in an encounter with somebody with a sophisticated weapon, when you don't have. So that is the greatest problem I have at the moment, that is the elephant poaching.\"\u003cbr/\u003e8. Various of Wildlife Works rangers in the bush\u003cbr/\u003e9. Various of elephant carcass\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Bryan Adkins, Director of Regional Engagement, Wildlife Works:\u003cbr/\u003e\"At this site, we lost a very old bull elephant who was passing through the conservancy, to poachers. He was part of a group of three. Unfortunately the poachers were able to shoot all three. One fell here - the bull behind me. Two other bulls scattered and eventually succumbed to their wounds about three kilometres (1.8 miles) from this site. The poachers were able to remove these tusks and were able to flee with them, unfortunately, and we were able to recover the tusks from the other two bulls that fell.\"\u003cbr/\u003e11. Various of elephants in Tsavo National Park\u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Rob Dodson, Vice President of African Field Operations, Wildlife Works:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We're competing with charcoal and those things in a way. You know, a lot of our community meetings are held under a big tree. We are able at that meeting to measure the tree, to work out its height and its diameter spread, and then we can work out how many tonnes of carbon are in that tree. We can then work out the value of that tree as charcoal, and the value of that tree traded as a carbon asset, as a carbon credit, as a verified emission reduction. And then the community can make a decision on whether or not to harvest that tree and other trees like it to make charcoal - money for today - or to use it as a natural resource, as a building block, for their financial security in the future.\"\u003cbr/\u003e13. Various of women carrying firewood\u003cbr/\u003e14. Various of tailor Nicholas Kisimu at work \u003cbr/\u003e15. SOUNDBITE: (Swahili) Nicholas Kisimu, a tailor at Wildlife Works: \u003cbr/\u003e\"If it were not for this job, I'd be in the forest making charcoal or even poaching wildlife.\"\u003cbr/\u003e13. 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