In 2012/2013, northern Kenya was losing up to 132 elephants a year to poaching. In recent years that has been reduced by 97% with poaching now considered to be equivalent to stealing from your own community.
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Disturbed by the silent extinction and migration of wildlife from the area and a looming threat to livelihoods as rangeland condition declined, the community in Westgate were united. They committed to focus on recovering the health of their land to ensure both wildlife, livestock, and people who depend on the rangelands have a future.
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In 2020, NRT member community conservancies, witnessed positive impact that Peace Ambassadors achieved by convening 109 meetings with an attendance of over 10,000 participants.
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Kenya RangER program seeks to eradicate poverty, promote wildlife conservation, enhance livelihoods and promote peace and security within the AMAYA counties.
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A hundred and fifty youth graduate after receiving key technical skills through the community conservation model
Read MoreThe main objective of the Ustahimilivu Programme is to support increased drought and climate change resilience in communities in the ASAL areas of Kenya. Specifically, to enhance food and nutrition security of vulnerable households, especially women and children, and to generate sustainable livelihoods and protect productive assets in West Pokot.
Read MoreNRT is dedicated to empowering the communities of northern and coastal Kenya and promoting peaceful coexistence through assisting conservancies in securing their land rights and ultimately strengthening their voice and protecting their land and livestock.
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Beisa oryx are currently listed as ‘Endangered’ by IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, which prompted the Nakuprat-Gotu Community Conservancy – a historical stronghold for the antelope – to launch focused conservation action.
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NRT and USAID announce the national premiere of documentary films- ‘The Story of Northern Rangelands Trust’ for World Environment Day.
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The Kenya Wildlife Service and Ruko Community Conservancy have successfully rescued the last giraffe trapped on a shrinking island and released her into a community-run sanctuary on the mainland where critical conservation efforts can begin.
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The Kenya RangER programme seeks to eradicate poverty through enhancing the productivity of ecosystem services provided by rangelands for food-feed-human-and-wildlife security in the Amaya Triangle counties of Laikipia, Samburu, Isiolo and Baringo through investments in evidence-based climate-smart feed resources.
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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.
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This 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.
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Local 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.
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A hundred and thirty women conservation leaders met during the International Women’s Day to celebrate milestones achieved though the community conservation model.
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The development of community conservancies has provided women with newfound opportunities to take leadership roles and influence decision-making about rangeland management and community development.
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She 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.
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NRT 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
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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 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.
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