Protect an acre
Conservancy Guardians
Protect an Acre
East Africa’s remarkable Wildlife Conservancies are one of the last decades real success stories in community led habitat preservation. Through visionary partnerships formed between the Maasai Landowners and some of the continent’s most innovative eco-tourism businesses, the habitat surrounding the Maasai Mara has been rescued from the brink of devastation. Together they have created and protected a growing cultural landscape in which key populations of Africa’s most iconic and endangered species can expand and thrive.
Simply put, the conservancies are the good news we have all been missing. The recent months though, have proven that tourism is unable to shoulder the burden of protection alone and as we step forward into uncertain times we have created “Conservancy Guardians” to help watch over these marvellous plains where wild lions roam free.
In donating you protect an acre, you support the funding of land leases held with the Maasai families, our local stakeholders in the conservancy. You are ensuring the resilience of the community, conservation and tourism bond at those moments when the planet needs us to stop what we are doing and weather the storms. I think we are all of us more aware today that the planet’s most significant challenges will need to be faced and overcome by a global community. To protect an acre is to offer fortitude and maintain hope, through the times of uncertainty while the planet’s crucial decisions are being made far away from where the lions roam wild.
• 5 Acres – US$50
• 10 Acres – US$100
• 30 Acres – US$300
• 50 Acres – US$500
Read on and discover why this habitat deserves your care and guardianship….
Mara North Conservancy – Something Truly Extraordinary
• 25,000 hectares of pristine wilderness, home to one of Mama Africas most iconic peoples, the Maasai, and some of her most celebrated wildlife.
• A lion stronghold that we have expanded to allow the birth of new prides in habitats now safe for their presence. The lions of the greater Serengeti – Mara ecosystem is one of only six populations numbering above 1000 individuals and, due to the conservancies, it is the only one which has an expanding space in which it can flourish.
• A protective buffer-zone on the Northern Edge of the wold famous Mara National Reserve and greater Serengeti Ecosystem. Though the National Reserve ends at the boundary, the preservation continues and the wildlife thrives for kilometres to come.
• Home to the great migration, these are the northern grazing plains for vast herds of what is rightly considered top of the list, among the most outstanding wildlife spectacles found on earth.
• A vital breeding ground for large predators. Lion, Spotted Hyaena, Cheetah and Leopard are found here in astonishing densities.
• Where giants can lumber un molested. Breeding herds of African elephants shift through the area on their migratory routes while some of the ecosystems most important breeding bulls make Mara North their home for much the year.
• The core ethic of inclusion of the Maasai families, our land owners, in the leadership, decision making and subsequent activities in tourism and conservation.
• Developing this community, through education and opportunity, while honouring and protecting their traditional pastoralist culture.