Sended on: 10/21/2008

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Dear friends,
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(At the peak of the dry season the camps waterhole gets more and more popular)

News from Kanzi.
The rains are not far away. We are enjoying the great blue skies of October, while we see the clouds building up in the afternoons. Soon the new moon will bring in the much expected rains. While the elephant viewing is now great, as all of them concentrate near the spring, we look forward to the Chyulu renewing their green blanket. See below how the camps waterhole will look in just few weeks.

(The same waterhole after the rains)

We told you in our last newsletter about the new tents platforms: here are two photos to make you more Campi ya Kanzi sick.

Feel like coming on safari? We still have some great offers: a week (7 nights) at the price of just 5 nights! With our rack rates valid till Christmas 2008 it means spending $3,405 per person, instead of $4,525 (saving more than $1,100 per person). With our new rack rates, valid from Christmas 2008, it means spending $3,915 per person, instead of $5,215 (saving $1,300 per person). This offer is valid till 31st March 2009 and includes return internal flights from Nairobi. While we are fully booked at Christmas, we still have some space for New years eve.

Look at this photos taken last night: full moon and a thunderstorm covering Mt. Kilimanjaro. It was really spectacular.

Our new brochure is about to be printed: let us know if you would like us to mail some to you.

MWCT
Our lions study is getting more and more productive. We now have 5 collared lions. Two of them have a satellite collar which gives us their constant position. We are working on getting this information updated in our website, so you could check even daily- the lions movements. The study is helping protecting lions lives, as we are capable to advice the Maasai of the closure presence of a pride, therefore containing predation.

The Simba Project is proving successful in avoiding the killing of any predator, but extremely expensive: the quarter which just ended last week cost nearly $30,000 in compensation. The community is highly appreciating our efforts and has agreed to punish negligence, by compensating only 25% of the value of livestock preyed because of bad herding (lost livestock). Please keep helping us sustain this meaningful program.

After three years spent first teaching Lucrezia and three Maasai children, then helping Luca running MWCT, Clare Corroone went back to Seattle. Her contributions have been instrumental to get the Trust where it stands today. We will miss Clare a lot, but we are happy she is now serving on the MWCF board, carrying on helping us, now from the USA.

A very exciting new: we are about to define the long term agreement for about 13,000 acres of conservancies, in two different crucial areas of the Group Ranch. A friend who prefers to remain anonymous answered quite enthusiastically to our last newsflash, where we told you about the World Savers award and our conservation efforts: he donated $250,000 to start a conservancies fund. We are certainly moving toward great accomplishments, thanks to the great support we are receiving. We will update you on the conservancies plans and how you could contribute to the fund, should you like to get involved.

Dont forget about our fundraisings: Santa Barbara on December 2nd, San Francisco on 3rd, Atlanta on 4th, New York on 7th. In case you did not receive an invitation let Luca know.

(Lucrezia helping Luca spotting a radio collared lion)

Warm regards from us all, hope to have you here soon, Luca, Antonella with Lucrezia and Jacopo, Stefano, Samson and all the Maasai teams of Campi ya Kanzi and MWCT.

P.S.
Keep supporting our efforts and we will keep accomplishing a lot together. See here below what your donation will do.
What your money will do:

A donation of&	Can&.	for&
$100	Pay the salary of a kindergarten teacher	1 month
$120	Pay the salary of a game scout	1 month
$215	Pay the salary of a teacher	1 month
$350	Pay for a set of books for an entire class	1 year
$500	Pay the salary of the coordinator of the Trust	1 month
$550	Buy medicine, needles, antibiotics	3 months
$600	Buy a hand held radio for the game scouts	Ever
$750	Pay for a pupil at secondary school	1 year
$1,440	Pay a game scout for 1 year	1 year
$1,800	Buy all the books the school needs	1 year
$2,500	Pay the salary of a doctor	1 month
$22,000	Cover for the entire payroll of the Trust	1 month
And more money can&.
$6,000	Build a waterhole to draw more wildlife and elephants into the reserve
$18,000	Buy a second hand Land Rover for helping the dispensary and the scouts
$45,000	Buy a Land Rover ambulance for the doctor, to assist the entire community
$50,000	Yearly fee for the Maasai landlords to establish & then maintain a conservancy
$75,000	Create a black rhino sanctuary
$80,000	Run Simba Project for 1 year

The Maasai Wilderness Conservation Fund (www.maasaifoundation.org) is a US 501 c (3) nonprofit corporation that has supported the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust with grants for wildlife conservation, medical and educational projects. Your donation will be directed to the sector, project or program you choose.