The BIOPAMA Rapid Response Grant started in earnest in the Mukogodo Forest. The Project support is geared towards enhancing communication, security, wildlife, and habitat monitoring in the face of the COVID pandemic. All the twelve ILMAMUSI CFA Rangers working across Mukogodo forest are involved in this Project. This is an important and significant shift in…
Since the passage of the Wildlife Conservation and Management Act in 2013, a national endowment fund to support wildlife conservation activities in the Country has been a mile too far for the GOK. This legal notice to the Public Finance Management Act is an attempt to realize the Fund and to finance its establishment –…
The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) established the positions of honorary wardens to assist the service in carrying out the provisions of the Wildlife Conservation and Management Act, 2013. KWS had requested all interested persons in the eight nationally designated conservation areas (Mountain, Northern, Southern, Tsavo, Western, Central Rift, Coast, and Eastern) to submit their…
Changing rainfall patterns and unpredictable seasons are increasingly becoming the norm. This is why water conservation is a must for farmers, ranches, and livestock keepers. Emu Sacco offers a pragmatic community-based approach to water security within the Upper Ewaso Basin. We provide financing and technical support for water storage, management, and applications. Through our membership…
Human-Elephant Conflict is a recurring threat in Laikipia North with severe consequences to both. According to the 2020 MIKE (Monitoring of the Illegal Killing of Elephants) report forIn Laikipia and Samburu, 153 cases of elephant mortality were reported. The highest percentage was from natural deaths. Human-Elephant conflicts accounted for 26.14% of all elephant deaths. At…
In northern Kenya, conservancies are regarded in conventional development circles as a panacea to poaching, human–wildlife conflict and land degradation. In his article “Bring back the herder conservationist” (June 2021), published in the citizens’ e-platform The Elephant, Hussein Wario Tadicha of the Centre for Research and Development in the Drylands (CRDD) reveals how the nearly complete…
The WRUA Institutional Development Project Implementing Committee have confirmed that efforts to strengthen the role and finances of WRUAs is on track. These results were highlighted during the performance review and feedback meeting convened by the Mount Kenya Ewaso Water Partnership, which leads the implementer of the WID project. The 9-member team met on May…
Numerous conservancies within our landscape and beyond have been facing serious financial constraints. The first wave of the Covid pandemic hit these conservancies hard and the second and more recent third wave have only made this situation murkier. The collapse in revenue generated from tourism has forced many of these conservancies to make budgetary cuts…