The Nannapa community come together again to rescue an elephant trapped in the mud
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The Northern Rangelands Trust (NRT) wishes to inform and clarify a statement made by H.E. Hon. Dhadho Godana, the Governor County Government of Tana River, regarding the removal of the white giraffe from Ndera Community Conservancy. There is one known white reticulated giraffe in Kenya, and it roams freely in Ijara, Garissa. It has never been translocated.
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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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Conservation action by indigenous communities in northern Kenya is providing hope for the future of the endangered Beisa oryx in the region. The results of an aerial count conducted in Nakuprat Gotu Community Conservancy have revealed a 10% per annum increase in the population of Beisa oryx in the area. However, the count revealed that livestock numbers had also increased fivefold since 2018, necessitating the need for the Conservancy to address potential resource-competition challenges without threatening local pastoralist livelihoods.
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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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The results of an aerial count conducted in Nakuprat Gotu in July 2020 revealed a 10% per annum increase in the population of Beisa oryx in the area. An estimated 880 individuals were counted, compared to 709 individuals in 2018. However, livestock numbers had also increased five fold since 2018, necessitating the need for the Conservancy to address potential resource-competition threats.
Ruko Community Conservancy partnered with NRT and the Kenya Wildlife Service to rescue ostrich, impala and warthogs from one of the vanishing islands on Lake Baringo.
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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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Peaceful dialogue between Samburu and Maasai elders coupled with joint efforts by the police and rangers from Naibung’a Community Conservancy have ensured the safe return of 47 head of stolen livestock from Tiamamut village in Laikipia.
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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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To achieve better market prices for herders and pastoral communities in northern Kenya, Northern Rangelands Trust-Trading (NRT-T) conducted a pilot project on better feeding practices.
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NRT, Samburu County Government, and all the nine community conservancies in the county (Westgate, Sera, Kalama, Nkoteiya, Meibae, Ngilai, Naluwon, and Kalepo) have today signed a five-year tripartite Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to provide a formal framework for structured, effective and efficient collaboration and drive forward collaborations in the development and strengthening of technical cooperation in community-led conservation in the county.
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Lamu community launches programme to enhance women’s access and benefit from fishing, through a unique model of community-based conservation.
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To scale up NRT’s transformational Leadership and Management Programme (LAMP), future trainers from within NRT are undergoing training, with support from USAID, to deliver LAMP in conservancies to support their journey to self-reliance.
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Losas Lenamunyi was once caught up in cycles on livestock theft and conflict. Today, he the Commander of a rapid response ranger team, and has been nominated as a Field Ranger Finalist in the 2020 Rhino Conservation Awards. The winners will be announced in a virtual event on World Ranger Day, Friday 31st July, but in the meantime, read Losas’ incredible story here.
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The impact of COVID-19 on the pastoralist communities of northern Kenya is tangible - income loss, market closures, lower consumer spending. That is why many NRT member community conservancies have requested the services of the NRT Trading Livestock-to-Market business (LTM) during the pandemic. Here’s how LTM has supported an estimated 3,500 people in conservancies through COVID.
Read MoreThe EU Ustahimilivu Programme, a resilience project supported by the European Union, is set to change the lives of many residents in West Pokot. Launched in April 2020, the main objective of the Ustahimilivu Programme is to support increased drought and climate change resilience in communities in the ASAL areas of Kenya. Just three months in, the project is already starting to have impact.
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