Kenya bets $160 million on the wild places its people call home

From the Great Rift Valley to the Maasai Mara, some of Earth's richest wild country is getting a decade of protection. Kenya and a group of donors have signed a $160 million conservation programme — Thamani Asili, 'the value of nature' — covering 173,000 square kilometres (17.3 million hectares) where elephants, rhinos and lions roam. Half the money comes from donors and half from Kenya's government, and the deal ties the funding to lasting policy change so protection outlives any single budget.

SDG 15 · Life on land — Mechanism: funding & finance