Kenya: Northern Rangelands Trust responds to claims its wildlife conservation scheme contributing to land grabbing from indigenous communities
"NRT Response to the Oakland Institute's Report 'Stealth Game'"
The Northern Rangelands Trust (NRT) contests the conclusions drawn by the Oakland Institute’s November 2021 report Stealth Game, and has concerns over its methodology and its reliance in some cases on disputed comments and testimony. Despite lengthy engagement in good faith with the Oakland Institute as it prepared this report, it is clear that its researcher continues to misrepresent basic factual information.
Nonetheless, the report contains very grave allegations that NRT takes extremely seriously. A number of the allegations made in the report have previously been evaluated by government led inquiries which found them to be groundless. Nonetheless, we will thoroughly review all accusations in the Oakland Institute report, and commit to taking any appropriate action recommended by our own internal appraisals of the claims, or any made by any authority mandated to investigate them.