Since 2012, Denmark has supported community conservancies through the Northern Rangelands Trust (NRT) with the focus on improving rangelands management, diversifying livelihoods by creating new enterprises, establishing lasting peace and security among Northern Kenya communities, and contribute to the long-neglected human capacity development by investing in health, education and water infrastructure and services.
Read MoreThis World Water Day, we look at the town of Biliqo - which hasn’t had clean water since the 1980s. Find out how Biliqo Bulesa Community Conservancy partnered with NRT’s water programme to fix this, and ensure residents and the services they rely on could finally access safe water.
Read MoreLocal communities - led by women - are leading mangrove restoration campaigns to restore and conserve mangrove forests in and around Pate, since these trees play a keystone role for the coastal ecosystem such as providing breeding grounds for fish and protecting the shoreline.
Read MoreA hundred and thirty women conservation leaders met during the International Women’s Day to celebrate milestones achieved though the community conservation model.
Read MoreThe development of community conservancies has provided women with newfound opportunities to take leadership roles and influence decision-making about rangeland management and community development.
Read MoreShe grew up dreaming of becoming a hotelier, but last week Joy Lenawalbene was appointed Samburu County’s first female Chief. “It never crossed my mind that I would one day lead my community,” she says.
Read MoreNRT 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
Read MoreKenya Wildlife Service and Ruko Community Conservancy partner to save critically endangered Rothschild’s giraffe trapped on Baringo island
Read MoreThe Swedish Ambassador to Kenya, Her Excellency Caroline Vicini, was inspired by community conservancies’ role in promoting peace among pastoralist communities during her visit to assess the impacts of programmes implemented by the Northern Rangelands Trust (NRT) with support from the Government of Sweden early January. The envoy lauded the involvement of women in peace efforts insisting that only a peaceful society will create a conducive atmosphere for investment which will then foster economic growth.
Read MoreThe Nannapa community come together again to rescue an elephant trapped in the mud
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreKenya Wildlife Service and Ruko Community Conservancy partner to save critically endangered Rothschild’s giraffe trapped on Baringo island
Read MoreThe world’s only known white giraffe has been fitted with a GPS tracking device at Ishaqbini Hirola Community Conservancy in Ijara, Garissa County.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreConservation 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.
Read MoreFor 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.
Read MoreIn 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.
Read More“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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