A panorama at Kasigau reveals a semi-arid landscape with wildlife darting from the bushy shrubs, grazing on the scanty vegetation, dusty trails gave way to water bodies and trees provided homes to weaver birds and numerous other birds.

Wildlife Guardians Mwarungu, Loice, Benson, Nerrius, Jacob, Grace and Felister have become something of friends as well as colleagues in their daily preoccupation and patrols. They are a few of the Kasigau Guardians, a group of rangers who seek to protect the animals at Kasigau Conservancy. Before the briefings, they catch up on their personal lives and share notes on how the villages were faring on. Then undertook their daily patrols in the ranch.

The guardians embarked on 24 lengthy patrols through the ranch noting the animals spotted, the tracks and searching the bushes and trees for snares that may be set in the month of December. The Guardians spotted animals and covered a total of 23 patrol areas in January. Fortunately, there were no cases of human-wildlife conflict, logging or poaching recorded.

In an effort to promote afforestation, an activity on tree planting was carried out. A vital and the much-needed two-day training for the guardians on grazing implementation plan and radio calls operations. The events were sponsored by Africa Wildlife Foundation and The Taita Taveta Wildlife Conservancies Association (TTWCA). They were able to attend several other meetings.

The guardians received a group of graduate students from the University of Denver, Graduate School of Social Work, USA as the experiential learning program took place.