On  behalf of the Board, Membership, and Secretariat of Laikipia Wildlife Forum, I would like to express our heartfelt condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of Mr. Dennis Muyila Simiyu, who was killed in a robbery at his home in Jamhuri Estate, Nairobi on Tuesday 8th May 2012. Mr. Simiyu had just joined the LWF secretariat as the Monitoring and Evaluation officer and was due to formally commence his duties at the end of this month. All who knew him appreciated his kind and pleasant nature. Our thoughts are with his family at this difficult time, and may he rest in peace.

Mordecai O. Ogada

Executive Director

The Forum is committed to bettering the lives of people in the area through supporting and generating livelihoods, while securing dependable, sustained access to essential natural resources. As a dynamic, membership led conservation organisation, LWF provides a platform for dialogue for a cross section of land owners and land users including local community groups, private ranchers, pastoralists, small scale farmers and tourism ventures.

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LWF has taken a holistic approach to conservation, which is reflected in the coverage of the programmes and the way it works.  Conservation in the LWF is broad based, and covers essential natural resources and clearly links the well being of people to the health of the natural environment.  People are as much a part of nature as other forms of life, and their lives and livelihoods depend on the natural environment being healthy; this is something many people forget or possibly don’t know!

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