(Posted 21st January 2026)
As we start the new year, we’ve had a chance to look back at a remarkable year of capacity building and impact despite many challenging changes for NGOs everywhere. We’re starting the new year with fresh optimism and renewed energy. Thank you for supporting us and staying connected over the past year. May the year ahead bring hope and courage that sparks more positive action for us all.
Mount Kenya Trust’s team deeply mourns the passing of Rick Anderson in November 2025. Rick was a key figure in Kenyan Conservation and served as a very active Chair of the African Fund for Endangered Wildlife. He respected the Trust’s work immensely, supporting many of our teams and projects over the course of two decades. He leaves behind a powerful legacy of true conservation action and unwavering support for wildlife warriors. His dear friends and family are very much in our thoughts.
Over the past two years, we have trained 5 CFA Groups, 102 men and women from Community Forest Associations, to tackle fire outbreaks. In 2025, we equipped everyone with high-quality tools and PPE.
Training and equipping community-based tree nursery groups is part of what we do to ensure all our forest restoration projects put people’s livelihoods at the core of our mission.
In March, with the help of a professional consultant and funding from Darwin EXTRA, we trained field staff and partner personnel on human rights in the workplace. Working with communities necessitates education about rights and safeguarding.
In May, we distributed our first 500 ‘Dignity Packs’ to adolescent school girls to support what is known as ‘period poverty’ affecting vulnerable girls without access to hygienic sanitary products. In 2026, we will distribute more at the schools we work with.
We spent the year working on our new Strategic Plan! We will be launching it in early 2026, bringing winds of exciting change for development and impact for our community conservation model, with greater visibility, collaboration, and IMPACT. We’re on a new and exciting journey that will take us to a higher level of success and opportunity.
Our Rangers once again participated in the Wildlife Ranger Challenge to raise funds and awareness for Ranger Teams across Africa. At the closing ceremony, the Game Rangers Association of Africa presented Mount Kenya Trust with an award for our Ranger teams, alongside three other organisations recognised for ranger work across the continent.
Our field teams consistently maintained fences to reduce human-wildlife conflict and conducted daily joint patrols despite an extended period of limited resources. They increased community liaison and interaction, raised environmental awareness, and assisted our management team in training individuals to conduct livelihood-monitoring surveys.
2025 was an incredible year for staff capacity building. Our Ranger Instructors had refresher training in July. In November, our Patrol Teams Head and head Instructor completed a trainer coordination course with LEAD Conservation in Tsavo. In November and December, LEAD trained MKT management & field staff, both online and in person, in problem-solving for and in QGIS applications.
Effective conservation is built on trained and dedicated ranger units, demanding fieldwork, high-risk operations, community collaboration, specialised equipment, planning, and multi-stakeholder partnerships – protecting forests and wildlife while keeping communities at the core.
In 2025, our partners for the Ragati Chehe Bongo project formalised a Trust to take the project forward and developed a website. Click on the image below to read about the project developmnets and our partners!
If you took part in our events or you are one of the incredible organisations that support our programmes, here’s what you helped us achieve in 2025
Join us for this year’s Tropic Air 10to4 Mountain Bike Challenge
