Laikipia Forum in partnership with ILMAMUSI Community Forest Association and conservation partners in the past weeks engaged with community representatives of Mayianat, Kuri Kuri , Il Ngwesi and Lekuruki Conservancies to deliberate and establish key project activities that will be implemented under the FAO Forest Restoration Initiative program. These strategic meetings took place at the…
Resource competition, climate change and politics can be considered as the primary catalysts to the menace that is cattle rustling, not only in Kenya but in East Africa at large. In Laikipia for instance, these particular issues have taken center stage time and time again. With the lack of rains within the landscape, herders from…
ORAMAT LENABOISHO COOPERATIVE SOCIETY has identified the need for many pastoralists to access animal drugs at favourable prices and locations. Therefore, the Society partnered with MEDISELL DAWA COMPANY- an animal input supplier to ensure that this need is served. To ensure that this goal is achieved, the Society saw the importance of setting up the…
ILMAMUSI is reviewing its elapsed forest management plan. Support for the activity comes from the Laikipia Conservancies Association. This Participatory Forest Management Plan final document will be followed by negotiations and signing of a 5 – year Forest Management Agreement between ILMAMUSI Mukogodo Forest Association and Kenya Forest Service. These are the two tools governing…
ILMAMUSI is organizing a “Walk Wild” event involving at least 500 people comprising of men, youth and women to create awareness and solicit for local support for landscape restoration and tourism in Mukogodo ecosystem. Working with the Forum and other partners, ILMAMUSI will organize an event to raise awareness on forest conservation and the restoration…
Community members from Lekurruki/Sieku, Il Ngwesi, Makurian, and Kuri Kuri have a reason to smile after the successful rehabilitation of 5 water projects within the Mukogodo landscape. The water point rehabilitation is great news for community members and for their livestock, especially at a time when Laikipia is experiencing low rainfall. Wildlife troughs have also…
A total of 3700 semi-circular bunds were established in an area of 115 acres at Lekurruki and Il Ngwesi conservancies. 30 casuals, selected members of the grazing committees from both conservancies, and 4 rangeland supervisors were trained by a team from Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust (MWCT) to spearhead the reseeding process of the micro catchments.…
DUPOTO Cooperative was registered on 26th February 2021, by the Commissioner for Cooperative Development with the name: “DUPOTO BEEKEEPING & MARKETING COOPERATIVE SOCIETY LIMITED”. Their objective focuses on bee products and the honey value chain to improve the livelihoods of the people bordering Mukogodo Forest Reserve. Its membership is derived from the 21 beekeeping community…
ILMAMUSI Community Forest Association received accolades from their partners the Kenya Forest Service, the Food and Agriculture Organization, Borana Conservancy, the Laikipia Forum, and Mukogodo community members for their efforts in strengthening their structures and operations at the CFA’s AGM in June. The CFA has been able to steadily grow an institution with a fully-fledged…
Livestock is a lucrative form of agribusiness which can deliver high returns if done right and if livestock keepers can access good markets. Over 60% of livestock for meat in Kenya comes from pastoralists, but due to their non-commercial inclination, the animals they supply to the markets are usually too old (over 4 years of…