Our Background
We’ve come from far and are headed far. You need to know
How it all started!
The IUCN SOS African Wildlife Initiative funded a Beisa Oryx conservation project in Nakuprat-Gotu Community Conservancy (NGCC) from 2019 to June 2021. A new mechanism, Save Beisa Oryx Community Trust (SBOC) was then established to continue conservation work on Beisa Oryx, other threatened native Antelopes, dependant wildlife and as well empowering pastoralist IP&LC livelihoods and resilience.
In 2022, with the support of Wildlife Conservation Network (WCN), SBOC Organisational and programmatic structures w ere developed with emphasizes on community ownership, and commitment and accountability.
Thus SBOC was designed as a Pastoralist IP&LC Conservation Network of a growing association of grassroot alliances of pastoralist groups of community ambassadors, volunteers and indigenous conservation leaders that continue to steward the protection of the Endangered Beisa Oryx, other threatened Antelopes, benefiting dependent wildlife and local communities livestock’s, while promoting Social Development that build the resilience of the local poor, vulnerable and unequal pastoralist communities that for decades now have coexisted with these threatened species in five pastoralist IP & LC (indigenous people and local community) Conservation Areas of Kenya.
SBOC Operations & Location
SBOC has two satellite camps in Nakuprat-Gotu Community Conservancy of Isiolo County and Ngaremara-Gambela Conservation Area of Meru National Reserve, together with Isiolo Buffalo Springs and Shaba and Samburu National Reserves, and Nasuulu Conservancy, Leparua Conservancy, Oldonyiro Conservancies, Kalama and Namunyak Community Conservancies they for the current SBOC operations area. SBOC has identified 48 Recovery Population herd (RPH) monitoring, 12 learning sites, 15 Dryland Acacia Forests Catchment and 24 settlements areas, where SBOC conducts monitoring visits, conservation, and social development activities.
We are dedicated to monitoring and management of Beisa Oryx and other threatened Antelopes, and Acacia trees as species of high importance to the indigenous pastoralist communities and their ecosystem. We use an integrated framework that employs a scientifically right based approach with a combination of community capacity building strategy, that include;
- We conduct Citizen science and species eco-evolutionary measurement through a combination of traditional data collection for Beisa Oryx and other threatened Antelopes, and Acacia trees. We do these in partnership with KWS, KFS, National Reserves and local community Conservancies as well as pastoralist protected Areas.
- We enhance community conservation stewardship through awareness and education, as well as involvement of the Ambassadors and community members in resilient monitoring and management of 15 Dryland Acacia Forest Catchments, Rangelands restoration and wetland management.
- We enhance community conservation stewardship through awareness and education, as well as involvement of the Ambassadors and community members in resilient monitoring and management of 15 Dryland Acacia Forest Catchments, Rangelands restoration and wetland management.