{"id":2429,"date":"2015-06-22T10:37:18","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T09:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/?p=2429"},"modified":"2015-11-19T13:02:57","modified_gmt":"2015-11-19T12:02:57","slug":"can-impact-investments-save-the-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/2015\/06\/can-impact-investments-save-the-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Can impact investments save the environment? Lessons from Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2430\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2430\" style=\"width: 1600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2430\" src=\"https:\/\/travindy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/NRT.jpg\" alt=\"ALL RIGHTS. A traditional herder from Northern Rangelands Trust community conservancies in northern Kenya.  Photo credit: Ron Geatz\/\u00a9 The Nature Conservancy\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1062\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/NRT.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/NRT-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/NRT-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/NRT-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/NRT-103x67.jpg 103w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2430\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ALL RIGHTS. A traditional herder from Northern Rangelands Trust community conservancies in northern Kenya. Photo credit: Ron Geatz\/\u00a9 The <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"The Nature Conservancy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Nature Conservancy<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>An innovative impact investment model lead by the Northern Rangeland Trust is helping traditional pastorialist communities prosper, providing funds for sustainable tourism initiatives, and reducing the risks of dangerous interactions between the herders and wildlife, both of which threaten the animals that depend on the grasslands for survival.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"su-highlight\" style=\"background:#81b910;color:#fff\">&nbsp;In Brief&nbsp;<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;In 2008, the NRT introduced its innovative \u201cLivestock to Markets\u201d program. Instead of having to make the risky long trek to a buyers\u2019 market, LTM allows herders to sell their cattle at a fair price directly to NRT in exchange for meeting agreed-upon conservation targets on their land.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;By controlling much of the supply chain, NRT has also been able to invest an additional $80,000 from the sale of the cattle back into participating communities to pay for additional grassland conservation, wildlife guards, clinics, schools and ecotourism lodges.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>In 2014,\u00a0the Nature Conservancy made\u00a0a $3.5 million impact investment in northern Kenya\u2019s conservation efforts,\u00a0enabling the herders to sell 10,000 cattle a\u00a0year\u00a0and\u00a0generate millions in income\u00a0as a result.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span class=\"su-highlight\" style=\"background:#81b910;color:#fff\">&nbsp;In Depth&nbsp;<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Read the original article &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenbiz.com\/article\/can-impact-investments-save-environment\" target=\"_blank\">Can Impact Investments Save the Environment?<\/a>&#8221; on GreenBiz<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nrt_kenya\" target=\"_blank\">Follow the Northern Rangelands Trust<\/a> on Twitter.<\/li>\n<li>Learn more about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naturevesttnc.org\/our-projects\/lands\/livestock-to-markets\/\" target=\"_blank\">Livestock to Markets<\/a> programme.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span class=\"su-highlight\" style=\"background:#81b910;color:#fff\">&nbsp;In the Future&nbsp;<\/span><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Kenya, impact investment is helping traditional pastorialist communities prosper and providing funds for sustainable tourism initiatives<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2430,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,287,140],"tags":[309,245,219],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Can impact investments save the environment? 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