MMWCA was able to provide better coordination and amplify conservation benefits to the local people, which led to a mindset change and eventual behaviour change resulting in the establishment of…
The newly established Wildlife Tourism College of Maasai Mara (WTC) welcomed its first 40 students to its campus at Pardamat Conservation Area on May 4, 2023. The students are pursuing…
In September 2016, while attending the Global Walk for Elephants and Rhinos in Talek, Maasai Mara, an old man rose to speak during the lunch and speeches session that followed…
The membership of landowners committees, critical conservancies governing organs, for Mara Conservancies were all men. Interestingly, it was a normal thing because, in any case, men owned the land as…
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…
