Connecting enhanced livelihoods to elephant and rhino protection
Key Facts
FUNDING SCHEME Main
VALUE £482,948
WHERE Kenya
Summary
The project will enable NRT's Conservancy Livelihood Fund to operate at scale across a 2.7 million hectare landscape in northern Kenya's elephant range. This challenge fund will support communities, through their Community Conservancies, to enhance their livelihoods with human, economic and land development, and link these benefits to conservancy membership. This will cement the relationship between successful conservancies, good elephant protection, and their own well-being. The fund will have robust access criteria, management and impact monitoring systems, and fund accountability.
Over 600 arrests and more than 500 convictions in wildlife crime since 2017, alongside a decline in ivory trafficking cases and an increase in elephant and rhino populations.
