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Transforming Lives, Conserving Nature

Grassroots conservation aimed at enhancing people’s lives, building peace and conserving the natural environment.

The Northern Rangelands Trust (NRT) is a membership organisation owned and led by the 43 community conservancies it serves in Kenya (northern and coastal regions) and Uganda. NRT was established as a shared resource to help build and develop community conservancies, which are best positioned to enhance people’s lives, build peace and conserve the natural environment.

NRT serves its member conservancies. These are local institutions run for and by indigenous people to support the management of community-owned land for the benefit of improving livelihoods. 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 the Natural Environment

 

20%

PIKE (Proportion of Illegally Killed Elephants) reported in 2022, a significant decrease from 25% in 2021 and 36% in 2020

4,401

Hectares of degraded land (formerly productive grazing land) rehabilitated

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Community-run endangered species sanctuaries for black rhino, hirola and the Rothschild’s giraffe

95,494

Mangroves have been planted in Pate, Kiunga, and Lower Tana Community Conservancies since 2018

25%

of the known global population of hirola reside in the community-run Ishaqbini Hirola Sanctuary

508

Square kilometers of conservation and protection of fisheries and coastal habitat

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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.   

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