55% of Kenyans rely on firewood fuel for cooking - putting immense amounts of pressure on forested areas. That is why in February, NRT, the Embassy of Sweden and Sida partnered to instal 30 biogas units in as many households in four NRT member community conservancies. The pilot project was launched under the IMARA Program Consortium and aims to reduce pressure on shrinking forest habitats from charcoal and firewood harvesting by using what pastoralists have plenty of - cattle dung!
Read MoreNRT has been closely monitoring the COVID-19 pandemic and implementing appropriate measures in line with Government guidelines to help keep staff and the communities we serve safe during this difficult period. At this time, all NRT programmes are continuing to operate, however there have been both organisation-wide adjustments made across NRT, and department-specific adjustments, to enable staff and community conservancy members to stay safe.
Read MoreA one-day carnivore conservation workshop was held in Kalama Conservancy on March 15th that brought together representatives from five community conservancies, NGOs and government. As carnivores continue to be persecuted across Kenya, the workshop focused on ways to reduce human/wildlife conflict with pastoral communities.
Read MoreFind out more about Josphine’s story, and the incredible work she does across the community conservancy landscape every day.
Read MoreThought 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.]
Read MoreOn 10th March 2020, scouts at the Ishaqbini Hirola Community Conservancy, Garissa County, found Kenya’s only female white giraffe dead, along with her calf. Initial reports from the community indicate armed poaching as the cause. Ishaqbini Community Conservancy management are working closely with the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) to establish the facts.
Read MoreOctopus Fisherwomen in Kenya Benefit from the Science of Recovery Times - an adapted excerpt from an article written and published by our partners The Nature Conservancy
Read MoreReal-time monitoring software is helping communities to track and tackle devastating locust swarms
Read MoreA Q&A with Rebecca Kochulem, NRT’s Baringo County Conservancies Director.
Read MoreThere 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.
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