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I) NRT does not manage community conservancies – it is a membership organisationfor community conservancies. “The county has eight conservancies that include Biliqo Bulesa, Nakuprat-Gotu, Nasuulu, Leparua, Oldonyiro Narupa, Oldonyiro Nanapicho, Oldonyiro Naapu and Oldonyiro Nannapa, all under the management of NRT. There are currently 39 member conservancies covering 42,000 square kilometresof northern and coastal Kenya, home to approximately 320,000 people belonging to 18 different ethnic groups.ĥ. Ii) All the vital information about NRT, publically available on our website clearly outlines that the Northern Rangelands Trust is a community conservancy membership organisation. The Community Land Act helps provide the framework for communities to protect their land from fraudulent sale or dispossession. The organisation is also on hand to provide land management support should it be requested by the communities. I) It must be made clear that NRT does not own, control or manage any community land anywhere, and has no interest in or power to do so.We aim to provide communities access to tools, training and funding. “NRT has managed to set up 39 conservancies across Northern and Coastal regions that cover 51,000 square kilometres or over 10 million hectares, about eight per cent of Kenya’s total land surface.” In fact, NRT support livestock, agriculture and other businesses in conservancies that helps to improve livelihoods alongside wildlife.Ĥ. NRT believes in supporting the integration of livestock and wildlife, and the community conservancy model reflects this. Ii) The entire Biliqo Bulesa Conservancy area, mentioned in the article, is managed by the community as integrated livestock and wildlife range, there are no areas where livestock grazing is excluded. In northern Kenya, wildlife, people and livestock continue to be nomadic across the landscape as they have for centuries, and community conservancies will never put up fences to stop nomadism, except for two cases where the community themselves have set aside land, and fenced it, for the protection of endangered species (black rhino in Sera and hirola and Ishaqbini). Neither NRT or the community conservancies have the authority to move people or settlements anywhere, or deny any community access to natural resources. This includes, and is indeed predominantly, pastoralism, and both NRT and the community conservancies have a strong focus on sustainable rangelands management for the benefit of pastoralism.
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I) A community conservancy is a community-based organization created to support the management of community-owned land for the benefit of livelihoods. “Conservationists favour the preservation of wildlife at the expense of pastoralists ” “Like elsewhere in the semi-arid areas of the North, pastoralists in Isiolo county are losing access to their traditional lands and their movements in search of pasture are increasingly getting restricted.”ģ. “Most of the land where they grazed their stock during dry periods has been taken over by conservancies”Ģ. In response to specific misrepresentations made in the article that:ġ. Letiwa was offered in-depth answers to the questions he posed to NRT’s CEO Tom Lalampaa during the course of writing this article, but that none of the facts presented to him were represented in his final piece, which was unbalanced.
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The feature penned by Paul Letiwa presents huge factual inaccuracies, and is fundamentally flawed.Īs such, NRT would like to exercise its right to reply to this feature but before doing so, would like to express its gratitude to the Nation Group for supporting NRT with various media platforms in order to share the inspirational work being carries out by the communities of northern Kenya. The Northern Rangelands Trust (NRT) Council of Elders, Board and Senior staff are alarmed by a news feature which appeared in The Nation newspaper’s Sunday edition on August 18th, 2019.