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| TOURISM |
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| Celebrating the Nanyuki Business Community |
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| The Kenya National Chambers for Commerce and Industry, Laikipia Chapter, is marking 100 years of Nanyuki as a township by bringing on board all stakeholders and members to a networking gala breakfast which will run parallel with Laikipia Business Awards to recognize and award the most exemplary businesses and individuals.
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| WATER |
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| Strengthening Resilience
The Maji Chap Chap Loan By EMU-SACCO |
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| Environmental shocks such as droughts and flooding can cause problems for any community. But communities whose livelihoods depend on scarce resources and are poor are particularly vulnerable.
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| WILDLIFE |
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| ‘The People Beyond the Poaching’ is a 32-page report on the illegal trade in wildlife-based on interviews with 73 convicted offenders in South Africa. The producer of the report—and this 9:22 film—is TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network.
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| Black is Beautiful at Laikipia, Kenya |
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| It has taken 20 years of relentless work by stakeholders to pull the black rhino back from the brink in Africa with their numbers having doubled from a historic low 20 years ago to 5455 in 2018 (WWF, 2019). Yet, the black rhino continues to be critically endangered, and to bring the numbers up to even a fraction of its earlier population estimates would be a bigger feat.
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| RANGELANDS |
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| Combating Human-Elephant Conflict in Mukogodo Forest |
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| Electronic Tagging of Livestock in Laikipia County |
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| The Laikipia County Department of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, in partnership with the Kenya Directorate of Veterinary Services, and the World Vision – Imara Program, has embarked on a livestock identification and traceability system programme in the County.
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| CONSERVATION EDUCATION |
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| Rehabilitation of Nanyuki and Likii Rivers For a Greener Future |
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| The importance of planting trees was reiterated throughout the event as trees would prevent erosion and help prevent pollution. Trees also bring about clean and fresh air and would help in stabilizing the river banks.
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