SORALO’s path to impact

SORALOs vision and mission is guided by the belief that if the communities of the South Rift can own, manage and benefit from their natural resources while retaining their cultural values of coexistence, then they will be able to make decisions and take actions that will maintain a healthy and intact landscape for themselves and

Conservation Education – Learning through doing

As part of our Education Program, in the last few months we have hosted different groups – from interns to students from The Sprout Experience, University of New England, board members and friends of the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden (CZBG), and Earth Expeditions, at the Lale’enok Resource Centre (LRC). Weather challenges notwithstanding we have

How the long rains affected our Communities

This year’s World Nature Conservation Day is very significant to us. It emphasizes not only celebrating nature but also acknowledging and addressing the impact of its power. Imagine receiving your annual rainfall over the course of a couple of days.  Two communities – Shompole and Olkiramatian, in the South Rift landscape experienced devastating floods between

Tusk Award Winner 2020 – our very own John Kamanga

We are very proud that our very own Director, John Kamanga, has won what is arguably one of the most prestigious conservation awards in the world, the Tusk Award for Conservation, 2020. This award is for an individual who is judged to be an emerging leading conservationist, in recognition of their outstanding success shown in

Celebrating World Giraffe Day! Words and photo by Losioki Somoire

It was World Giraffe Day on June 21st and SORALO reminisces the attributes of a community that patiently keeps practicing promising ethos. The Maasai are possibly the traditionally indigenous community in the world that still coexist with wildlife. Despite the world becoming very chaotic, with political voices shouting for exclusion of wildlife, the Maasai community