Heads often turn when Charity Lemein drives by in her safari Toyota Landcruiser. Sighting a female safari guide is a rarity. Well, not that much anymore, but it is still…
Women and youth got little direct benefit, specifically lease payment, from conservation. Lack of substantive benefits results from structural issues that see the title holders, the majority of them men,…
The MMWCA internship programme is one of the avenues the Association invests in young people in the Maasai mara and beyond. The programme allows young graduates to have first-hand experience…
Several stakeholders had mulled over setting up a regional conservation body for the Maasai Mara for a while. Ad hoc efforts to set up the body culminated in a defining…
Aitong’, Maasai Mara has played host to diverse delegations from near and far that seek to learn about the Mara Conservancies’ model. The approach is rooted in the spirit of…
I joined MMWCA on January 1, 2014, as a Project Manager for a project Mara North Conservancy contracted MMWCA to implement, funded by the Obel Family Foundation. Conservancies needed a…
The Maasai Mara National Reserve is a treasured national gem whose popularity straddles every corner of the globe. This magnificent landscape is intricately connected to a vast ecosystem that stretches…
Over 83% of wildlife in the Maasai Mara were found in community conservancies, according to a 2021 census by the Wildlife Research and Training Institute and the Kenya Wildlife Service.…