BATTLE FOR LAIKIPIA
Climate change and unresolved historical injustices raise the stakes in a generations-old conflict between Indigenous pastoralists and white landowners in a wildlife conservation haven.
For centuries, Kenya's Laikipia region has been a grazing route for indigenous pastoralist communities. It is also home to white ranchers and conservationists who settled there during the British colonial era and stayed after Kenya's independence in 1963.
Since 2017, we have intimately filmed our characters as they confront a rapidly changing world. Laikipia has been feeling the ravaging effects of climate change for decades; the pastoralists, the ranchers and conservancies rely on Laikipia’s grasslands to sustain their cattle and the wildlife.
When drought and elections collide, conflict erupts. Our story goes beyond the headline grabbing conflict. Exploring identity, the complicated legacy of British colonialism, and the intersection with climate change, all while happening during the most fragile moment of our planet.
CREW
Directors
DAPHNE MATZIARAKI
PETER MURIMI
Produced by
TONI KAMAU
Producer
DAPHNE MATZIARAKI
Co-producer
MAYA CRAIG
Executive Producers
ROGER ROSS WILLIAMS, GEOFF MARTZ
Executive Producer
JODY ALLEN, JASON HUNKE
Executive Producers
SHARI SANT, SHANNON JOY, TIFFANY SCHAUER
For Doc Society Climate Story Fund
MEGHA ARGAWAL SOOD, SHANIDA SCOTLAND, EMILY WANJA
Line Producer
KATI DAVENPORT
Editor
SAM SOKO
Consulting Editor
ESTEBAN MANZANARES UYARRA
Cinematography
DAPHNE MATZIARAKI
PETER MURIMI
MAYA CRAIG