In October 2019, a group of rangers and community members have started removing several hundred trees of the highly invasive Prosopis juliflora from the land of the Ruko Conservancy in Baringo County, Kenya. The Woody Weeds project supports Ruko Conservancy in implementing an ‘Early detection and rapid response’ management strategy against Prosopis. In a meeting earlier this year, the board members of the Ruko Conservancy decided that Prosopis should be considered as a threat to the peace-building process in the region and will negatively affect the Conservancy’s efforts to integrate sustainable livestock management with wildlife conservation.