BARINGO COUNTY, Kenya – Last December in the town of Marigat, in Kenya’s central Baringo county, Paul Chepsoi had to excuse himself from a dinner of nyama choma (roasted goat) to take a call. Upon returning to the table, he explained that it was to arbitrate a dispute over stolen cows. “If I don’t get […]
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Eager to see these giraffes return to their homeland, Pokot and Ilchamus community members got to work. Within a year they had established the Ruko Conservancy, a 44,000-acre community conservancy where both the Pokot and Ilchamus work. “It wasn’t easy,” says Rebby Sebei, a Pokot community member who manages the conservancy. “But both sides were keen for change.”
In 2011 the conservancy received its first group of Rothschild’s giraffes: eight animals relocated from other areas in hopes that they’d multiply and repopulate the area. The giraffes were placed on a peninsula in Lake Baringo, where they could be easily protected from poachers.
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