There is a threat to wildlife and wilderness in the Mara!!!
Due to the crisis in Kenya, tourism has collapsed and many Maasai people have lost their livelihoods.

Our love for the Masai Mara and concern for our Maasai friends have led us to set up a base camp, from where we can take steps to help with the current crisis in Kenya which badly affects wildlife communities.We intend, along with our partners, to employ out of work Maasai directly as wildlife scouts to protect their own habitat. We will support the communities in: education (including conservation education), health, social way of life and co-existence with wildlife, all this in line with preserving their rich culture and habitat.

Together with the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) we will train these wildlife scouts and work together with Rangers from KWS in habitat and wildlife protection. These scouts and KWS Rangers will operate from the base camp.

We know that poaching and habitat destruction has risen across the country, this is a result of loss of jobs in areas dependent on tourism. There are not anywhere near enough resources to protect wildlife all over Kenya and we are very concerned about this, hence our goal for a decisive conservation plan. We have focused on the Mara as being an amazing wildlife area and will target the Siana community as our starting point.

This wildland and its wildlife are under threat and it is so important to the Maasai people that their wildlife and habitat is not lost as their livelihoods in tourism and conservation are at stake.

In a visit this week to a Manyatta(a Maasai homestead) , we ran into situations that may seem very ordinary to the local Maasai, but that are a real worry to us and in vital need of our attention, and here are some images from Siana Maasai communities.

Lellia, above, is a little girl with Trachoma (a fly-borne eye disease) in its early stages and she could go blind if not treated in time.

Here is, would you believe! a water-hole from which the villagers draw their water for consumption - a potential source of waterborne diseases.

A view from the centre of a Maasai boma(enclosure), where their cattle stay at night. The grounds are covered with cow dung and mud which make breeding places for the flies, this is made worse when it rains.

Here we are meeting with the local womens group who were crying and they felt that they as a people were ‘dying’ because they had lost their tourism.

Our camp is located in a most magnificent wildland area. These are the habitats that we want to do everything we can for. The zebra and wildebeest are competing for grazing with livestock.

These are some of our neighbours!!

The leopard is one of the species that we are trying to protect from the retaliation of human wildlife conflict issues.

We would very much appreciate your support and donations to protect the Mara and the Maasai.

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