Earlier this year, the Naibunga community decided to take action against the degradation of their rangelands. Supported by NRT, and The Nature Conservancy - WYSS, the community was granted Ksh. 2.4 million to rehabilitate degraded land, for the benefit of people and wildlife. Between them, they worked on healing gullies across more than 10,000 acres, cleared 7,150 acres of damaging Acacia reficiens and reseeded 350 acres with grasses.
Read MoreHow a family of three are captivating scientists and conservationists across the world.
Read More25-year old Lokeno Toriepe is a pastoralist from Ltungai Conservancy. Find out how he’s working to protect the landscape he loves from deforestation.
Read MoreThe Northern Rangelands Trust (NRT) Council of Elders, Board and Senior staff are alarmed by a news feature which appeared in The Nation newspaper’s Sunday edition on August 18th, 2019. The feature penned by Paul Letiwa presents huge factual inaccuracies, and is fundamentally flawed.
Read MoreCounty Assembly of Samburu have approved the Samburu County Community Conservancies Fund Bill, 2019. The Bill seeks to fund community owned conservancies, starting with KSH. 120 million this financial year. Samburu is the first County to approve such a bill, which will have significant impact on the ability for community conservancies – who largely still rely on donor funding – to be independent and sustainable.
Read More“I want other young men to know that there is another way of earning a living apart from livestock” - meet Kevin Lesita, who lost half his livestock herd - his only source of income - in a drought in 2009. He is now a ranger and a part-time farmer, passionate about encouraging other young men to diversify their livelihoods.
Read MoreHow 200 community members from Narupa Community Conservancy transformed more than 200 hectares of land - and what impact this has had on wildlife, women and working pastoralists.
Read MoreFour NRT-member community conservancies in Marsabit County have received Ksh. 28 million (USD 280,000) from the NRT Conservancy Livelihood Funds (CLF), after each submitting successful applications for livelihoods and development projects. The communities, through their boards and management team, have earmarked the funds for supporting education, micro-finance and tourism.
Read MoreIt’s a challenge that pits man’s mechanics against Africa’s toughest bush terrain – and judging by the broken steering, flat tyres, burnt out clutch, and overturned Land Cruiser, nature held no punches in this year’s Rhino Charge competition, held in Nannapa Community Conservancy in Isiolo.
Read MoreIt sounds counter-intuitive: cut down trees to help rehabilitate land. But that’s exactly what the community of Namunyak have been doing, with support from NRT and SIDA. Last week, they held a ceremony to mark the end of weeks of work to clear the highly damaging Acacia reficiens tree from across 1,300 hectares of land.
Read MoreKenya’s First Lady, Her Excellency Margaret Kenyatta, was inspired by the "exceptional women" she met at NRT Trading’s headquarters during a visit in late June.
Read MoreSeparated from their mothers by abandonment or poaching, rescued by community scouts and hand reared by dedicated Samburu keepers, then released fit and strong back into their wild homeland — this is the story of three young elephants that is as heart-breaking as it is heart-warming, and a true testament to the strength of community conservation and partnerships. Thanks to satellite collars and close on-the-ground monitoring, we’ve been able to keep up with how they’re taking to their new life in Sera Community Conservancy; from their first steps outside of the holding pen, to integrating with a wild herd.
Read MoreMeet Moses Domonyang, a ranger at Pellow Community Conservancy who uses his experience to raise awareness on the importance of education in his community. His story is the seventh in our #10Moran series.
Read MoreWhen cultural norms hinder your opportunity to get an education, own property, or even make decisions about your own body, the chances of you starting a business are slim. For women in northern Kenya, this is a reality that perpetuates the poverty cycle, and often prevents them from becoming decision-makers, entrepreneurs and agents of change. This gender-based cultural suppression isn’t just bad for women, it’s bad for men and the economy too. As community conservancies look for ways to reduce reliance on donor funding, strong governance and business development are key, and that means increasing entrepreneurial opportunities for women.
Read More300 young men from 32 community conservancies came together for three days in late May to broker peace through dialogue and sport.
Read MoreRuko Community Conservancy in Baringo County last week received Ksh. 6,143, 750 (USD 614.4) from the NRT Conservancy Livelihood Fund (CLF) for school bursaries and vocational training.
Read MoreThe community in Kiunga Conservancy at the coast have spent three weeks cleaning up plastic from their beaches in partnership with Safari Doctors.
Read MoreCommunity conservancies in Isiolo County received Ksh. 15 million (USD 150,000) last week from the NRT Conservancy Livelihoods Fund (CLF). The communities, through their boards and management team, have earmarked the funds for education bursaries and microfinance for businesswomen. The cheques were handed over in an event that was attended by seven Members of County Assembly and the County Assembly Speaker, Hussein Halakhe.
Read MoreNRT would like to exercise its right to respond to the Fact Finding Report conducted by the Borana Council of Elders and the Waso Professionals Forum (April 2019), and address the wild allegations made in the findings of this report.
Read MoreThree rescued elephant calves have been successfully translocated from the rehabilitation centre where they were raised, to a holding facility in Sera Community Conservancy, Samburu County, in the first milestone of their journey back to the wild. The successful move was a partnership between NRT, the Kenya Wildlife Service, Sera Community Conservancy, Reteti Elephant Sanctuary and others.
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