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Wildlife ranger Salome Lemalasia, 30, strokes 5-year-old black rhino Loijipu in Sera Rhino Sanctuary, Samburu County, Kenya on May 11, 2022. Loijipu is an orphan black rhino who became the first black rhino calf to be born in a community conservancy in Kenya. Sera Rhino Sanctuary, in Sera Conservancy, is the first community-run black rhino sanctuary in East Africa. Kenya has lost nearly 70% of its wildlife in the past 30 years. Many conservancies in Kenya are transforming their models towards a community-based approach that allows local communities to improve their livelihoods while promoting conservation and facing the impact of climate change that threatens severely many of these protected areas. By placing communities at the centre of wildlife conservation and improving conservation incentives, conservancies in Kenya are securing livelihoods while reserving wildlife decline, resulting in the protection of Kenyas iconic wildlife for the future generations. (Photo by Luis Tato/AFP Photo)
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