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Featured: NRT Status of Wildlife Report 2005-2019.
Collating 15 years of data from NRT member conservancies, this is the first comprehensive report on the impact of NRT member community conservancies on wildlife since NRT was established in 2004. It brings together all the data available on the status and distribution of key wildlife gathered by community conservancy rangers during their daily patrols, as well as additional research and monitoring from partner organisations working in the landscape. The report also presents the status of endangered species being managed in several community-run sanctuaries established in our member conservancies in collaboration with NRT.
Key highlights of the report are:
Conservancies encompass critical range for more than eight globally endangered mammals.
Evidence of increasing populations of elephant, Reticulated giraffe, Grevy’s zebra and Beisa oryx across the NRT-centre landscape largely due to the conservation work of NRT member community conservancies.
Expansion of range for elephants and increased connectivity from Mt Kenya up to Marsabit due to security provided by conservancies.
Reduced poaching of elephant and turtles as a result of conservancy and NRT rangers anti-poaching efforts.
Well managed core conservation areas provide critical refuge for large carnivores, especially lion.
Buffalo are declining across much of the NRT landscape, increased frequency of droughts coupled with degraded rangelands is likely the cause of this decline.
Human elephant conflict is increasing; elephants cause more human deaths and injuries in conservancies than any other species and conflict killing of elephants is now one of the highest causes of death. Emphasis on mitigating elephant conflict will be an important part of NRT’s wildlife strategy in the next five years.