There is a locust invasion crisis facing many parts of Kenya. This natural phenomenon has been triggered by the good rains, and now threaten livelihoods and wildlife in and outside of community conservancies. Working with County Governments (Isiolo, Samburu & Meru), National Govt, Lewa Wildlife Conservancy and other private entities, NRT has been supporting efforts to monitor the invasion through aerial surveillance. Here is a factsheet on the invasion with more information.
Read MoreThe biggest giraffe satellite tagging project ever is underway, as five NRT member community conservancies partnered with NRT, Giraffe Conservation Foundation (GCF), San Diego Zoo Global (SDZG), Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS), and Shaba and Samburu National Reserves to fit 21 endangered reticulated giraffe (Giraffa reticulata) with GPS satellite trackers. To date, 28 animals have been tagged as part of this project, which will provide important data on giraffe home ranges, movements, poaching and conflict with humans.
Read MoreHow community conservancies are partnering with others to collect data from elephants to better shape conservation measures.
Read More58 young warriors have graduated from the pilot vocational training programme Ujuzi Manyattani, supported by NRT and the Embassy of Sweden under the IMARA Program Consortium. Aimed primarily at illiterate youth, Ujuzi Manyattani provides mobile, village-based training to people in community conservancies by partnering with polytechnic institutions. It is a response to a wider drive by community conservancies to diversify indigenous livelihoods and encourage entrepreneurship amongst women and young morans.
Read MoreReteti Elephant Sanctuary in Namunyak Community Conservancy has successfully returned its second group of rescued and rehabilitated elephants to the wild.
Read MoreErupe Lobun is the first to admit his transformation is the stuff of fiction.
Read More40 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).
Read MoreA nine-year old female black rhino has given birth to a healthy calf, in the first and only community-run black rhino sanctuary in East Africa. The calf, whose sex has yet to be determined, was born on 8th October 2019, bringing the Sera Rhino Sanctuary’s total population to 16.
During the first week of September, 28 giraffe were collared in Sera, Kalama, Westgate and Biliqo Bulesa community conservancies, as well as Loisaba Conservancy and Mpala Ranch, as the largest giraffe collaring operation in history came to a close. 39 giraffes have now been GPS-collared in northern Kenya, through a partnership between community conservancies, NRT, Loisaba Conservancy, the Giraffe Conservation Foundation, and San Diego Zoo Global. They are providing invaluable data to scientists and conservationists, and helping communities on the ground to shape the most effective conservation measures - before it’s too late.
Read MoreA bumper octopus harvest for Pate Conservancy’s fishers proves community-led marine management can reap big rewards
Read MoreAcross Kenya’s wildlife-rich Laikipia Plateau, a thorny enemy is advancing. But a tiny sap-sucking insect may help save the region’s animals and people.
Read MoreEarlier 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.
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