NRT through the wildlife and security departments is celebrating rangers who play a critical role in supporting community-led conflict mitigation, wildlife protection and endangered species recovery across the 39 member conservancies
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Kenya Wildlife Service and Ruko Community Conservancy partner to save critically endangered Rothschild’s giraffe trapped on Baringo island
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The Nannapa community come together again to rescue an elephant trapped in the mud
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Kenya Wildlife Service and Ruko Community Conservancy partner to save critically endangered Rothschild’s giraffe trapped on Baringo island
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The world’s only known white giraffe has been fitted with a GPS tracking device at Ishaqbini Hirola Community Conservancy in Ijara, Garissa County.
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The Ishaqbini Hirola Sanctuary in Garissa County fitted tracking devices on five critically endangered hirola antelope in partnership with the Kenya Wildlife Service and the Northern Rangelands Trust. This is a huge milestone for the community-run project that seeks to conserve the world’s most endangered antelope.
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For Ahmed Ali Mohammed, a ranger in Kiunga Community Conservancy, releasing baby sea turtles into the ocean is one of his happiest moments. He works to protect turtle nesting sites and raise awareness on turtle conservation in his home community on the Kenyan coast.
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In the second feature of our #10Guardians series, we meet Charles Lekatai — ranger commander at Ruko Community Conservancy. Until 2012, Charles had never seen a giraffe, picturing them only from the stories his grandfather used to tell. Charles’ journey to giraffe guardian is synonymous with Ruko’s fight to bring their native giraffe home.
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“We sang, danced and the elders prayed and blessed the rhinos” - This World Rhino Day - September 22nd - we look at how the first community-owned black rhino sanctuary came to be.
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We brought you 10Women, then 10Morans, now we bring you 10Guardians! 10 stories from 10 wildlife guardians across the NRT member conservancy landscape – from wildlife vets to conservancy rangers, elephant caretakers to turtle patrollers. First in the series is north Kenya’s wildlife vet, Steven Chege. Working across the NRT member conservancies thank to support from San Diego Zoo Global, Chege has had an extraordinary patient list; from elephants with gunshot wounds and lions with infections, and once a black rhino who needed life-saving eye surgery.
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It’s World Giraffe Day today - 21st June! Did you know a group of giraffe is often referred to as a ‘tower’? But across Africa, these magnificent towers are tumbling at a worrying rate. According to the Giraffe Conservation Foundation, giraffe numbers on the continent have plummeted by around 30% since the 1980s, when there were an estimated 155,000 animals roaming across west, central, east and southern Africa. Today, there are approximately 111,000. In some areas where giraffe once thrived, numbers have dropped 95% since the 1980s. Here are three ways NRT member conservancies are helping to protect these gentle giants.
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Reteti Elephant Sanctuary has successfully released four hand-reared elephants, Loisaba, Baawa, Lchurai and Nadasoit into their new home Sera Community Wildlife Conservancy.
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A young bull elephant was found and rescued just in time by community members in Nannapa Community Conservancy in late May, after getting stuck in thick mud near a water hole.
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25 endangered Grevy’s zebra have successfully been translocated from Lewa Wildlife Conservancy to Sera Wildlife Community Conservancy; the latest in a series of moves aimed at boosting biodiversity in East Africa’s first and only community-run black rhino sanctuary. The move was a partnership between Sera Community Conservancy, the Northern Rangelands Trust, the Kenya Wildlife Service, Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, the Grevy’s Zebra Trust, USAID, The Nature Conservancy, DANIDA and many more. It marks the first translocation of Grevy’s zebra to a community protected area and highlights the critical lead role that communities are taking in endangered species conservation in northern Kenya.
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Every year, thousands of sea turtles die from being trapped underwater in fishing nets. So when scouts from Pate Marine Community Conservancy came across a green sea turtle entangled in a fishing net while on patrol last week, they knew they had to act fast to save her.
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Scouts in Pate Marine Community Conservancy discovered a rare sea mammal while on patrol last week, confirming anecdotal reports from fisherman of signs and sightings of the vulnerable dugong. Although the dugong was found deceased (cause of death unknown) the find could indicate community conservation efforts at the coast are protecting the habitats the rare dugong needs to thrive here once again.
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Thought to have disappeared from Pellow Community Conservancy, two new sightings of the endangered pangolin here have inspired fresh conservation action by the community. [Photo by Andy Lowe, via African Wildlife Foundation.]
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How community conservancies are partnering with others to collect data from elephants to better shape conservation measures.
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Reteti Elephant Sanctuary in Namunyak Community Conservancy has successfully returned its second group of rescued and rehabilitated elephants to the wild.
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40 impalas from Lewa Wildlife Conservancy have been successfully translocated and released into their new home at the Sera Rhino Sanctuary, Samburu County. They have joined another impala herd, also moved from Lewa in 2015, as the Sera Community Conservancy moves toward increasing landscape biodiversity. The move was a partnership between the Sera community, NRT and the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS), and was supported by support by the US Agency for International Development (USAID).
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