The scourge of the conflict between humans and animals in Kenya can also be alleviated thanks to the stubbornness and clear-headed passion of individuals who think of solutions and manage to set the aid and bureaucratic machinery in motion and create the conditions for doing something.
This is the case of one of Italy's honorary guardians in Kenya, Olga Levari Ercolano, who for years has been particularly involved in preserving and improving conditions in Nairobi National Park.
The nature reserve in the Kenyan capital is an incredible resource, not only in terms of tourism, being the only park with native wildlife in a metropolis anywhere in the world.
But at the same time, it is a symbol of what is happening not only in Kenya, but in much of Africa: civilisation and urbanisation are pushing and human activities are encroaching on savannahs and reserves, creating mutual unsustainability. While pastoralists invade the parks with their herds and the maasai resume hunting the lions responsible for the killing of their cows (but they no longer have spears, but rifles), hyenas roam the towns and attack people (a few days ago there was news of a specimen found sleeping in a bar in Nakuru by the owner).

To try to prevent this major problem in Nairobi, Olga felt it was necessary to reactivate an ancient seasonal waterhole within the park, the Ololo Dam, which had been slowly drying up with the last few years of drought.
An immense project, especially from an economic point of view, which neither the Kenya Wildlife Service, nor a solidarity chain, as happened previously to fence off part of the park close to residential neighbourhoods, again at the urging of the honorary wardens, could have carried out.
So the Italian turned to the foundation of the I&M banking group, which has always been sensitive to these times, and managed to get a more than USD 1 million project completed, which included the clearing and redevelopment of the area and culminated in the rehabilitation of the dam in the south-western area of the park. Projects such as this not only safeguard the survival of the park's animals for possible future dry seasons, but also prevent them from leaving the park in search of water and food, creating problems for man or forcing him to fight them.