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The Ministry of Environment and Forestry is establishing a national CBNRM desk to coordinate community-based natural resource management, and is recruiting a coordinator to lead it.

Kenya’s Constitution and the Convention on Biological Diversity both guarantee women a role in natural resource decisions. In the rangelands where conservancies sit, that promise is unmet.

The Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act 2018 cuts conservancy representation on the KWS board from three seats to one, and reshapes county wildlife committees and penalties.

KWCA has asked the Senate to withdraw the Natural Resources (Benefit Sharing) Bill, 2018 or delete wildlife from it, arguing the Bill applies extractive logic to a renewable resource.

A letter to partners closing KWCA’s fifth year, on what the 2018 Partnership Dialogue Forum revealed about what genuine collaboration in conservation actually demands.

The Telegraph’s Sarah Marshall interviews Tusk Award finalist Dickson Kaelo, who describes the conservancy as a revival of rangeland practices that let people and wildlife share land.

Community representatives from Africa, Asia and Latin America are asking governments meeting in London to recognise them as equal partners in tackling the illegal wildlife trade.

Six million hectares secured, 3,000 community rangers and endangered species recovering — and yet most of Kenya’s conservancies remain nascent, under-governed and financially fragile.

Conservancy petitioners lay before the Senate committee on land and environment the constitutional and financial case for budgetary support to Kenya’s wildlife conservancies.

KWCA CEO Dickson Kaelo has been shortlisted for the 2018 Tusk Award for Conservation in Africa, recognised for uniting Kenya’s landowners and communities behind wildlife conservation.

Josphat Kasaine ole Kosikir, 63, who has spent 23 years in the Mara conservancies and trained over 300 rangers, is among 18 Kenyans given the 2018 African Paradise Rangers Award.

Dickson Kaelo’s World Ranger Day remarks at KWS headquarters, honouring Julius Kior Kulwa and Ambrose Nyange and the over 6,000 rangers serving Kenya’s protected areas.