Community Based Tourism Archive
Lions going extinct? Or Maasai?
Posted by jimheck in Animal Attacks, Big Game, Community Based Tourism, Mara, Safari Lodges on May 21, 2010
Richard Leakey’s excellent wildlife consortium, Wildlife Direct, said today that “Kenya’s lions are on the brink of extinction.” Exaggeration or real warning?
Probably both.
The organization’s warning followed an incident in late April where three lions were poisoned in Lemek, a private wildlife conservancy north of Kenya’s famed Maasai Mara game reserve.
Wildlife officials arrested the alleged [...]
The Monkey & The Butterfly
Posted by jimheck in Community Based Tourism, History, Wildlife Management on January 26, 2010
The 2009 “Year of the Gorilla” ended very beautifully and very sad. The butterflies will just have to wait.
It was a sad coincidence from the start that the YOG planned so long in advance occurred as the world tailspinned into economic collapse. The whole point of these sponsored years is to focus attention [...]
Maasai Rebellion?!
Posted by jimheck in Community Based Tourism, Mara, Politics, Serengeti on September 24, 2009
A continuing struggle in the private game reserves of the Mara/Serengeti border area has been exacerbated by the drought and economic downturn and may turn violent.
A number of private reserves in the Loliondo area, which lies on the eastern border of the Serengeti and southern border of the Mara, risk growing civil disruption by the [...]