NAIROBI: The LUMO Community Wildlife Conservancy, located in Taita-Taveta county in Southwest Kenya, is home to elephants, lions, buffaloes and antelopes, while also being a core target of poachers.

To monitor and protect the conservancy, 16 community rangers worked through day and night. The conservancy covers an area of 46,000 acres. Monitoring of the conservancy is a labor-intensive process and rangers can cover up to 40 km per day in their patrols.

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