Taita Taveta Wildlife Conservancy Association | Kenya

Taita Taveta Wildlife Conservancy Association (TTWCA) is based in Taita Taveta County and works to ensure that the Tsavo ecosystem continues to thrive and that socio-economic benefits are realised by communities in the region. TTWCA is a membership organisation that has brought together land owners of 28 ranches with a total land mass of around 1.4 million acres. These ranches comprise nine Directed Agriculture (DA), six group ranches, four private Ltd, eight individual, and one cooperative ranch. The DA, group and cooperative ranches were allocated to ten communities of the Taita tribe who make up their membership by birthright. These ranches act as a vital wildlife corridor between Tsavo East and Tsavo West National Parks, especially for elephants. Apart from wildlife, the ranches are also used for economic activities such as livestock keeping, mining tourism and carbon off set programs. Climate change, land degradation, poaching, illegal grazing and human wildlife conflict are challenges faced in these rangelands.

TTWCA has provided an avenue for all 28 ranches to become conservation players and to collaborate in addressing these joint concerns. TTWCA’s strategic mission is ‘to support rangelands management for effective and sustainable utilisation of resources’. Its core objectives are supporting holistic landscape conservation initiatives on the ranches, supporting and facilitating development of infrastructure, and viable economic initiatives for wealth creation, advocating for the ranches’ agendas, establishing and strengthening collaborative networks with strategic partners and strengthening institutional capacity for delivery of vision and agenda.

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