SFS KENYA: WILDLIFE HEALTH AND CONSERVATION
(SUMMER II)
PROGRAM DETAILS
Term | Summer Session II
Credits | 4 semester-hour credits (8 credits if taken with Session I)
Prerequisites | No course prerequisites | 2.5 GPA | 18 years of age
Application Deadline | May 1st. Early applications encouraged!
Financial Aid | All accepted students can apply for need-based scholarships, grants, and loans.
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OVERVIEW
Immerse yourself in Kenya’s diverse ecosystems while exploring the role of wildlife health and medicine in conservation. Traveling from the Amboseli ecosystem to primate habitats near Nairobi to the Maasai Mara Reserve, you will study how disease, human–wildlife conflict, and environmental pressures affect elephants, lions, cheetahs, raptors, and other threatened species.
Through lectures, field excursions, and discussions with experts, you will gain insight into the practices of wildlife health management and the ecological, social, and medical dimensions that influence conservation outcomes. By the end of the program, you will have a deeper understanding of how wildlife health connects to the broader future of conservation in Kenya.
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
→ Journey on multi-day trips to the Nairobi Primate Institute and Maasai Mara National Reserve, observing primates, megaherbivores, and predators in their natural habitats.
→ Travel across wildlife conservancies in the Amboseli ecosystem to explore pressing health challenges facing elephants, lions, cheetahs, raptors, and other endangered species.
→ Learn how human–wildlife conflict, climate change, and emerging diseases are shaping conservation outcomes in East Africa.
→ Connect with leading ecology, conservation, and veterinary science professionals to gain insight into real-world wildlife health management practices.
→ Discover how wildlife medicine, ecology, and community engagement intersect to safeguard biodiversity and the future of threatened species.
LOCATION
The Center for Endangered Species Conservation is nestled between three world-famous national parks in the heart of Kenya’s Rift Valley. The snow-capped peak of Mt. Kilimanjaro towers over miles of savanna, replete with a diversity of wildlife. Students and staff live on a sprawling, grassy campus made up of traditional thatched bandas (cabins) and a central chumba (main building), just down the road from the small town of Kimana.
SUMMER COMBINED
Take back-to-back summer sessions and get the hands-on learning and skill-building experiences of an internship while also going off the beaten path and exploring the world. Each summer session focuses on a different topic, and you’ll have time to travel independently between sessions.
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