Most popular questions about community conservation in north-eastern Kenya
Community conservancies are conservancies established by a community on community land.
The community elects the board who determine benefit-sharing mechanisms, drive strategic development of the conservancy and oversee operational management.
Conservancies in Kenya have been effective in responding to issues of poaching, land degradation and human wildlife conflict by acting as buffer zones between human and wildlife. This has resulted in:
- Thriving wildlife
- Healthier lands
- Job creation
- Community development (as a sizeable percentage of income from conservancies is put into community projects, such a improving water access and road infrastructure)
- Misconceptions about conservancies: how they work and how they are beneficial to the local community.
- Low management capacity due to lack of adequate skilled personnel and investment in capacity building.
- Overdependence on outside funding due to lack of adequate sustainable programs wholly founded and run by the conservancy.
- Establishing a conservancy can be costly as well as time and labour intensive.
- Inadequate governance structures to tackle mistrust and local politics and ensure equitable benefit sharing.
Establishing a wildlife conservancy a publication by The Kenya Wildlife Conservancies Association (KWCA) provides a great outline of how to establish a conservancy in Kenya. Click here to download the guide.
The process of establishing Kamuthe Wildlife Community Conservancy commenced in 2019 and in 2020, Kamuthe was officially registered.
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