Dickson Kaelo and Tom Lalampaa argue in the Daily Nation that Kenya’s 166 conservancies protect its most important environments and deserve investment on a par with national parks.
At Irong community conservancy beside Lake Bogoria, the Endorois are reversing decades of catchment destruction, improving governance and livelihoods alongside the biodiversity they protect.
Five conservation leaders from Kenya, Tanzania and Namibia write in Mongabay on how the collapse of tourism revenue exposed the fragility of Africa’s community conservation funding model.
Writing for The New Big 5, Dickson Kaelo makes the case that wildlife crime will be beaten at the grassroots, and that the greatest threat to Africa’s wildlife is space.
A roundup of the best writing on what the pandemic means for wildlife conservation, from emergency funding for rangers to the global argument over the wildlife trade.
Tourism supplies between 80 and 90% of conservancy management costs. With the industry at a standstill, thirty years of investment in community conservation is now at risk.
How KWCA is adjusting its programmes to the pandemic: staff working from home, information shared with far-flung conservancies, and partnerships sought to keep conservancies solvent.
The #WildAboutLife campaign took 53 young people through Nairobi National Park and Naretunoi conservancy, for many their first visit, to open a conversation about youth and conservation.
African People & Wildlife and the National Geographic Society have named KWCA a best practice in community engagement in their publication Community, Conservation and Collaboration.
The Association of Wildlife Conservancy Rangers in Kenya is now a full member of the International Ranger Federation, linking over 3,000 rangers to some 70 associations worldwide.
At CITES CoP18 KWCA’s interventions on community consultation were adopted, and it now sits on the inter-sessional working group on engaging Indigenous Peoples and local communities.
An amendment effective 9 July adds a conservancy representative to the governing body of the Wildlife Conservation Trust Fund, correcting an omission KWCA petitioned against.
