Tags: wildlife

ILRI News on wildlife

01 Oct 2020

ILRI’s Kapiti Research Station to serve as conservancy and critical wildlife corridor for Nairobi National Park

ILRI’s Kapiti Research Station (photo credit: ILRI/Jake Meyers). ‘Nairobi National Park wildlife ecosystem has more than doubled its land size to 78,000 acres after two institutions agreed to integrate their land with the wildlife conservancy. On Thursday, 24 Sep 2020, the Kapiti Research Station...

Susan MacMillanTeam leader, Communications, awareness and advocacy

ILRI News

30 Sep 2020

ILRI’s Kapiti Research Station commits to preserving biodiversity and conserving wildlife through its wildlife corridor

Cabinet Secretary Najib Balala giving ILRI’s director general, Jimmy Smith, a certificate of registration for ILRI’s Kapiti Wildlife Conservancy (photo credit: CS Balala). Nairobi, Kenya – At a masked, socially-distanced ceremony held on 24 Sep 2020 at the Swara Plains Conservancy, the...

Ekta PatelBioscience Communications Manager

ILRI News

30 May 2020

A bridge not too far: To prevent pandemics, close the human and animal health divide

Stone relief of a man holding an ibex, 713–706 BC, from Dur Sharrukin, the Palace of Assyrian King Sargon II, at Khorsabad, in present-day northern Iraq (photo credit: Louvre Museum). Written by Lynne Peeples Nadia began coughing on March 27. The 4-year-old Malayan tiger’s keepers at the Bronx Zoo...