How SORALO Aims to Protect the Pastoral Land Commons and Open Range Lands in the Rift Region of Southern Kenya
= "community-driven land trust working in Kenya’s South Rift Valley".
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"SORALO is a community-based and community-driven land trust established in 2004. We work in Kenya’s South Rift Valley, a bridge between the Maasai Mara and Amboseli. Our primary role is to ensure the integrity of this landscape for the benefit of its people and wildlife.
We work in Kenya’s South Rift Valley, a bridge between the Maasai Mara and Amboseli. In this area, local Maasai communities have lived with their livestock alongside wildlife, forests, and grasslands, maintaining a landscape of exceptional biological and cultural diversity. This rangeland hosts one of the richest large mammal populations on earth, including both wildlife and livestock. This co-existence is enabled primarily by the communal and semi-nomadic form of local land use, which encourages mobility to ensure survival. Today, this is an increasingly threatened landscape, confronting a growing population, a culture in transition, and land use changes that threaten both wildlife and their livestock."