The Northern Rangelands Trust supports 39 community conservancies across northern and coastal Kenya. Together, we are changing the game; supporting communities to govern their wild spaces, identify and lead development projects, build sustainable economies linked to conservation, spearhead peace efforts to mend years of conflict, and shape government regulations to support it all. 

As institutions, community conservancies not only give people a voice, but provide a platform for developing sustainable enterprise and livelihoods either directly or indirectly related to conservation

Northern Kenya is a very different landscape now to the one it was ten years ago. Community conservancies are changing the narrative - a region once infamous for conflict and poaching is now at the forefront of community-led development, enterprise and peace efforts, all inextricably linked to the protection of its incredible wildlife and landscapes. 

Conserving natural resources

 

96%

drop in the number of elephants killed for ivory in NRT member community conservancies since 2012

7,000

hectares of degraded land (formerly productive grazing land) rehabilitated by 3,000 community conservancy members in 2019

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community-run endangered species sanctuaries for black rhino, hirola, giraffe and orphaned elephants 

30,000

mangrove seedlings planted in community conservancies at the coast in 2019

160%

population increase of critically endangered hirola in Ishaqbini Sanctuary since 2015, which now represents 20-25% of the global population

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NRT member community conservancies work to conserve wildlife and sustainably manage the grassland, forest, river and marine ecosystems upon which livelihoods depend.   


Latest from the Field

 

Impact 2019

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Reteti Elephant Sanctuary