GAZETTE NOTICE NO. 12829

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by section 44 (3) of the Wildlife Conservation and Management Act, 2013, the Cabinet Secretary for Tourism and Wildlife gazettes the Plan in the Schedule hereto. SCHEDULE The Kasigau Ranch Wildlife Conservancy Management Plan (hereinafter referred to as "the Plan") defines the principles and strategies that stakeholders of Kasigau Ranch Wildlife Conservancy have designed to address conservation and natural resource management, tourism development, community participation and development, wildlife utilization and conservancy administrative issues. The Plan emphasizes that all activities within the Kasigau Ranch Wildlife Conservancy shall be in accordance with the Plan and the Wildlife Conservation and Management Act, 2013. The Plan is a dynamic document that shall be subject to periodic reviews, depending on emerging issues and new knowledge. The Plan addresses threats to Kasigau Ranch Wildlife Conservancy's values through the following management intervention measures— (a) implementing the Zoning scheme outlined in the Plan; and (b) implementing management actions under the four management programmes. The Plan's zoning scheme and management programmes are outlined in the following sections: I. ZONING SCHEME The Kasigau Ranch Wildlife Conservancy's zoning scheme seeks to support the regulation and promotion of allowable uses across the area and to reconcile different types and intensity of use in different parts of the Conservancy. To achieve this Kasigau Ranch Wildlife Conservancy has been divided into six zones (Administration blocks; 3 tented camps, with a 50 bed capacity each; camping sites; 1 Picnic site; 1 recreation facility and an Air strip). 2. MANAGEMENT PROGRAMMES The Plan has five broad management programmes (Conservation and Natural Resource management; Tourism Development; Community Participation and Development; Wildlife Utilization and Operations and Security). Each management programme contains management objectives that set out the future desired state that the Plan implementers aim to achieve, and a set of specific management actions to achieve these objectives. 2.1 CONSERVATION AND NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PROGRAMME The program's main objective is to provide leadership, direction and coordination of the conservation and management of the conservancy's habitats, fauna and flora and infrastructural development and thus enhance sustainable conservation of the natural resources therein. 2.2 TOURISM DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME The main aim of developing tourism in the conservancy is to provide financial incentives to the shareholders of the ranch to sustainably conserve and manage wildlife and natural resources in the conservancy. The revenue gained from tourism will support the conservancy workforce, infrastructure development, vehicles purchase and maintenance, benefits sharing programme, and the day today running costs of the conservancy. The revenue will also support the conservancy community game rangers who will patrol and offer surveillance of the conservancy constantly. 2.3 COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME To win the goodwill and support of the community the conservancy shall engage in human-wildlife conflict mitigation, extend sustainable wildlife conservation and management extension education to the community, learning institutions, stakeholders and the visitors. It will engage the community through Barazas (Public meetings), school lectures, radio stations, television, the conservancy's information centre and community members' and visitors' visits to the conservancy, meetings with stakeholders and any other appropriate forums. 2.4 WILDLIFE UTILIZATION PROGRAMME The conservancy will pursue a non-consumptive wildlife utilization policy where hunting, cropping or game farming will not be allowed. Wildlife will be conserved in their natural environment. 2.5 Operations and Security Programme The main aim of the conservancy's operations and security provision is to enhance the fulfilment of its vision and mission. This will be done through the establishment of various management units. These are the wildlife conservation and management, wildlife research and ecological monitoring, community wildlife conservation and tourism units. The Plan including the background information on the plan and facts upon which the Plan is based is deposited at the offices of the Director-General, Kenya Wildlife Service along Langata Road and the Conservancy Chairman whose addresses are provided below: The Director-General, Kenya Wildlife Service, P.O. Box 40241-00200, Nairobi, Kenya Tel: (254) 020 6000800/6002345, E-mail: kws@kws.go.ke The Chairman, Mara Lemek Conservancy's Land Owners, P.O. Box 511— 20500, Narok Tel: (254) (0) 722550782 E-mail:mlemekconservancy@gmail.com Dated the 30th October, 2021. NAJIB BALALA, Cabinet Secretary for Tourism and Wildlife.