Fauna & Flora International (FFI) teamed with local partners and international funders to establish the 90,000-acre Ol Pejeta Conservancy in 2003. Located at the foot of Mount Kenya, Ol Pejeta plays a vital part in the Laikipia ecosystem in northern Kenya, protecting critical migration corridors and diverse wildlife, including black rhino and Grevy’s zebra.

Joanna Elliott, FFI’s Senior Director, Conservation Partnerships talked about the current land and wildlife management context and the challenges Ol Pejeta faces, including in helping local people and wildlife to weather extreme drought, safeguarding its rhino population against a well-armed and organized poaching threat, and building a commercial model that can respond to these challenges and enable the conservancy to expand its impact.

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Speaker Bio
Joanna Elliott joined Fauna & Flora International in early 2013 as Senior Director, Conservation Partnerships based in Cambridge. Her recent work has focused on biodiversity-poverty linkages, impact assessment, large scale project design, protected areas systems, and conservation-business partnerships.