"Kenya Wildlife Conservancies Association response to allegation of land dispossession by conservancies"

While this story is about NRT and Community conservancies in Northern Kenya, the lack of objectivity and distortion of facts, paints a bad image on wildlife conservancies in Kenya. Contrary to the article’s assertion that community conservancies are an avenue to dispossess communities of their land and put the land under the control of militia funded by external donors, community conservancies in Kenya are community initiatives developed to enhance rather than destroy ability of pastoralists to live off their land. Conservancies are managed by locally elected community leaders who develop and foresee implementation of the conservancy management plans. The community rangers, themselves local youth implement community decisions. The author did not attempt to contact KWCA yet went ahead to falsely report that 2,300 community rangers have been trained by KWS.