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MMWCA’s CEO on Leading Community Conservation in the Maasai Mara
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…
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Mara Tourism College Opens the Door to First Cohort
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…
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Why Maasai Mara Remains a Significant Cultural and Wildlife Hub
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…
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Addressing Gender Divide Through Policy and Capacity-Building
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…
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Securing the Future Through Youth Training
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…
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Unlocking Enterprise Opportunities for Women in the Maasai Mara
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,…
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Helping Youth Find Footing in the Marketplace
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…
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Down Memory Lane: The Evolution of the Mara through the Eyes of a Founding Board Member
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…
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Laying the Foundations for Mara Conservancies’ Model
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…
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MMWCA Through the Eyes of Longest-Serving Staff
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…
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