Land for Life – WWF’s UK Aid Match project supports local Maasai communities and wildlife to coexist more peacefully
Over the past three-years WWF-UK, in collaboration with WWF-Kenya, WWF-Tanzania, African People & Wildlife and South Rift Association of Land Owners (SORALO) have empowered local communities in southern Kenya and northern Tanzania to manage their natural resources sustainably, with positive impacts for both people and wildlife.
Photograph: SORALO all female team of community rangers using a mobile phone to share locations before morning patrol. Credit: WWF-UK
Communities have been supported to live more peacefully alongside wildlife, protect their livestock with predator-proof ‘Living Walls’, manage rangelands sustainably, and women especially have been empowered to take an active role in conservation and develop sustainable enterprises.
Photo: A Maasai community member helping to install a living wall boma at the home of Jopha Kakanyi. Longido, Arusha, Tanzania. Credit: WWF-UK
“We have to continue in making sure that we all focus on giving communities a chance to be the drivers of conservation in these areas because the land belongs to them”. John Kamanga, Director of SORALO
