Kiplombe Community Conservancy

Alot of History in Kiplombe

The Kiplombe Community Conservancy (KCC) covers an area of approximately 290 hectares at the Western rim of the East African Rift Valley, surrounded by the three villages of Orinie, Nakurtawei, and Posta, whose communities are the owners of the land.

The community elders set aside Kiplombe Mountain as a wild animal habitat, as a shrine, a hiding place during the Maumau war, and as a center for traditional communication purposes as early as 1962. Until the 1970s, the region hosted a population of black rhinos before the remaining specimens were translocated to Nakuru National Park. Kiplombe Community Conservancy is one of the 15-member conservancies of the Baringo County Conservancies Association (BCCA) and is categorized under highland landscapes.

Kiplombe Landscapes

Conservancy Board Members

Wildlife Sightings

Sightings of big game in the caldera and neighboring forests, such as buffaloes, were frequent as recently as 2014. The conservancy is strategically located and rich with unique natural resources, with a wide and diversified wildlife of fauna and flora, including zebras, baboons, monkeys, striped hyena, rock hyrax, porcupines, warthogs, wild pigs, Waburgia ugandensis, red cedar, Olea Africana, Acacia spp, among other untapped resources.

Several tourist attractions sites include Nandoshoke Cliff, which features the Office “parliament”, Caldera Crater, Eagle Cave-KOWEYEE, Leopard Cave, Waterfall-KILEBEI, Red water-KISARGET/KINAMKET, Diatomite-TARTARIE, Rhino Cave-place where rhinos bathe and lick salt-NGENDA, Fire Tower, Mau Mau cave, Granite-KAPKITONYIK, Presence of fossils, and a designation as the only monument site in Baringo County.

Opportunities in the conservancy include establishing indigenous and medicinal trees, beekeeping, potential campsites, hiking sites, nature trails, bird watching, livestock fattening, tortoise sanctuary, biking, education, and research, as well as opportunities for beadwork and craftsmanship, among others.

The conservancy has received partners like; the Lembus Council of Elders, BCCA, 50 Treasures of Kenya, KWCA, KFS through the provision of tree seedlings and security, and schools.

The Conservancy has a wide and diversified wildlife of fauna and flora.

Tree Seedlings for Conservation

Volunteering Rangers

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Baringo County Conservancies Association (BCCA) was registered in 2017 as a landscape level membership organization for community conservancies in Baringo County.