Conservation

Nowadays, we are increasingly aware of the importance of protecting the environment and enjoying it in the most ecologically sound possible manner. We, at Campi ya Kanzi, are proud to be among the most environmentally friendly camps in all of Africa (so quoted by Adventure Magazine, National Geographic magazine, USA Today).

To properly and adequately assist the local community, we have founded the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust, which employs nearly 200 local people; runs conservation, education and health programs; and invests US$1,000,000 per year into the community.

We help and assist the Maasai community to implement sustainable ways to manage their land and their resources. We organize workshop and trips to enable the Maasai community to better protect their wilderness. Schools courses run by teachers and Maasai elders address the need to understand the delicate balance of the environment and how the entire community can play a role protecting it.
If you have some old school text books for primary school please bring them with you, it will certainly help us.
The Trust we created is sustained by our guests, through the $100 conservation fee they contribute to it for each day spent with us.
Your money contributes to:

• The employment of game scouts to make sure there is no poaching, no water diversion, no bush fires, and no illegal cutting of woods;
• The employment of teachers, to provide education in 15 local primary schools; and
• The employment of a doctor and several nurses, to assist the local community of 7,000 Maasai in 4 local dispensaries and in 1 clinic.

We are proud to say that we have achieved meaningful results in protecting both the wilderness and the wildlife, working handin-hand with the Maasai.

Cartier, through Edward Norton, President of the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Fund, has declared its LOVE to the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust.

Thanks to this LOVE Campaign we have started, in 2007, our Predator Compensation Program (Simba Project).

We are now able to compensate to the Maasai community for livestock losses inflicted by lions and other predators. This is the only way to protect the lives of the lions. Join Cartier and help us: for every green bracelet sold, Cartier is donating $150. You will help the lions and the Maasai to co-exist peacefully together. Do you know that there are more polar bears (24,000 to 30,000 is the number drawing most consensus) than lions? And that the lion population in Africa was estimated in 100,000 lions just ten years ago, in 23,000 four years ago and in 18,000 two years ago?! Act now if you want your kids to see wild lion in Africa!
Our lion population, since the beginning of the Simba Project, has increased more than 300%!