Dickson Kaelo’s address at the pre-World Ranger Day event in Kasigau, honouring the 150 rangers who died on duty in the past year and calling for stronger support for those who remain.
SIFA FM’s Linda Akoth talks to KWCA Gender Officer Joyce Peshu about how gender-based violence manifests in wildlife conservancies and what KWCA is doing to prevent it.
Women in conservancies struggle to attend meetings, and benefit discussions are treated as men’s business. KWCA is working with conservancies to confront the norms behind that exclusion.
LGT Venture Philanthropy has begun a new engagement with KWCA, providing core funding and strategic support to strengthen its operations, financial strategy and monitoring and evaluation.
On the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, Dickson Kaelo argues that community rangeland management, not continental-scale schemes, is where the answer lies.
Msafiri magazine devotes a special feature to community conservation, interviewing KWS Director General John Waweru and KWCA CEO Dickson Kaelo on the role of conservancies in Kenya.
KWCA and eight regional associations have submitted landowner proposals for the review of the Wildlife Act 2013, whose implementation stalled when 19 subsidiary regulations went ungazetted.
KWCA is among four winners of the USAID RISE Challenge, funding a project with Fauna & Flora, CARE Kenya and CREAW to address gender-based violence in Kenya’s community conservancies.
KWCA and the Kenya Tourism Board have signed a memorandum of understanding to market conservancies as a distinct destination for domestic, regional and international travellers.
The Wildlife Research and Training Institute has been formally established by gazette notice, with its inaugural board inducted and conservancies represented among its members.
KTB and KWCA are partnering to list conservancies under the Magical Kenya Signature Experience programme, addressing a sector that supplies just 1.3% of Kenya’s tourism share.
The President’s Sh53.7 billion stimulus package allocates Sh1 billion to Kenya’s 160 wildlife conservancies, which unlike parks receive no government funding and rely entirely on tourism.
