The Northern Rangelands Trust (NRT) would like to exercise its right to reply, on behalf of all its member community conservancies, to the article published on January 9, The Standard titled ‘Why conservancies are clashing with villagers,’ by Mr Wario Malicha. It is unfortunate that the very definition and structure of a community-led conservancy seems to have been misunderstood in the article in question. We seek to correct this misinformation and others.