Ngong Forest

Ngong forest,like any other natural setting has suffered from exploitation. To minimize the rate of exploitaion in 2003, an electric fence was erected to cover a total of 600ha which is now the Ngong Road Forest Sanctuary.

Not all measures will work as expected, even with this high voltage fence, enemies of conservation will still find their way in!

One of our camps, Hillcrest camp, due to limited number of rangers, only one of the rangers was located at this point,he evacated due to increased threats by thugs.our rangers are not armed and also the introduction of the Nairobi Southern bypass that cut across the sanctuary opening access to the forest thus increased insecurity cases.

The fence controll unit in Hillcrest camp that was located inside a container (these are residential units for the rangers)was stolen,this included:energizers ,batteries and solar panels rendering the fence powerless and prone to damagers.

have a look at this,

This is the point where the energizer and batteries were located inside a “container” at the Hillcrest camp

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a similar complete and funtional controll unit at the main gate

the “container” remains which are chipped off by thugs including the solar panels that were located at the roof.

potion of the fence where there is no current flow,the forest intruders use this as the entry point including huge herds of maasai cattle.

after cutting the wire its coiled together and ready to be carried by thugs

As a result,an approximate a length of 5km of the fence is unfunctional since it was served by the controll unit in Hillcrest camp.

Having the 23km perimeter fence functional is our aim,we are able to maintain the 18km already functional ,but currently we are financially constrained and we can not meet the urgent need to maintain the remaining unfunctional 5km fence ,we are therefore appealing for your help, to aid in revival of the hillcrest camp and to have the system powered again.

Nothing will initiate a smile on our face, than to see your response to help protect this adorable resource.

Thank you.

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