The community-owned Kijabe Group Ranch has set aside a full one third of its grazing and settlement land for conservation. We have been successful in excluding livestock in this area; and increasingly successful in attracting and securing growing numbers of important wildlife species. Recently, neighbouring Nkiloriti Group Ranch added a further 600 hectares/1500 acres to the conservation area, Tiemamut Group Ranch a further 3500 acres, and under agreement the Kijabe Trust also manages a further 4500 acres for a neighbouring Samburu community.

The Ranches have also now set limits on the numbers of livestock to be carried on the remainder of their land. This is already having beneficial effects on grazing quality and sustainability, tree preservation and erosion.

Importantly, The Ol Lentille Conservancy is at the heart of the greater Naibunga Conservancy which joins together the conservation areas of six other Group Ranches in a 17,000 hectare/43,000 acre tract of northern Laikipia. We support these ranches to help them secure and improve their conservancies.