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Pastoralists in bid to boost wildlife conservation

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The land making up the new Illaingarunyoni Conservancy is an important wildlife corridor and dry-season refuge for the pastoralist Maasai community. [Stafford Ondego, Standard]

Some 1,000 landowners in Mashenani, Kajiado county have agreed to utilise their parcels of land to protect the last remaining migratory route between Kenya's two key wildlife landscapes.

The move will see rare African elephant species and community livelihoods safeguarded.

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