Our blog has been a bit quiet lately. It isn’t that nothing is going on. It’s just that what we are doing is harder to write about. The topics we’re discussing at the dinner table have morphed from heart-stopping wildlife sightings and bird species identification to things like:

“Given all the problems up here, what are the realistic and workable ways to improve conservation outcomes and achieve sustainable economic growth? How can we use NRT’s Livestock to Market business or tourism development as catalysts?”

“Who are the political stakeholders that need to be involved in increasing the number of teachers in the pastoralist communities and how can we keep teachers in schools when they’re being harassed by local warriors, they don’t have places to sleep and they get paid about half the time?”

We’ve moved from the wonders of the place to the nitty gritty of the work.

The hands on work of keeping track of cows when there are no computers available.