Challenges and Hopes

Kenya had in the 80s the highest birth rate in the World. In the last 100 years its population grew from less than 2,000,000 to nearly 40,000,000. 70% of its surface is arid or semiarid. Therefore the demand for land in the last decades has been immense. Among the species, human beings have been the winners and all other species have been the loosers. It is believed that East African wildlife was decimated in the first 50 years of the 20th century, and decimated again in the next 50 years. It is like saying that for every animal we see today, there were 100 more just a century ago.

Read the interesting point of view of Danny Woodley, Senior Warden of Tsavo National Park, in the document you can download here. To learn more about this, please see www.tsavotrilogy.com.

Ecologically, this is one of the most important areas of East Africa, not just for its rich biodiversity but also because it is a crucial corridor between Amboseli and Tsavo National Parks, and is one of the last areas of a vanishing Africa where a primordial culture is still surviving.

The ecotourism of Campi ya Kanzi, and the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust programs linked with it, are we believe the best way to conserve for future generations the wilderness, the wildlife, and the Maasai culture of this ecosystem.