[ [link removed] ]A member of the Maasai sits on a rocky ledge looking out at the lush
green horizon
John,
The Maasai people in south-west Kenya have created a miracle.
With the support of over 200 spiritual, political, and community Elders
and leaders across 2 million hectares, they have made it possible to
create the longest wildlife corridor in East Africa.
Every season, the needs of the elephants and wildlife to travel great
distances freely for food and water is threatened by fencing and human
development. If they are to exist and flourish, we must urgently return
this precious land to the great herds, protected by the people who have
lived there for generations and understand it best – the iconic Maasai
themselves, guardians of this vanishing ecosystem.
The Maasai have made a miracle possible. Now, we can make it happen.
Every 50 dollars helps take down a fence and support another acre of
protected land – join the effort to save the great herds before it’s too
late.
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$3
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Traditional land conservation funding kicks Indigenous people off their
homeland and turns land management over to high-end tourism, development,
and land appropriation. This leads to “conservation refugees” filling
shanty towns on the margins of their own traditional lands.
The Maasai in Kenya have created a new model in Nashulai Maasai
Conservancy, which has won the 2022 UNDP award for successful indigenous
conservation and which allows the Maasai to stay on their lands and train
their whole community in wildlife conservation. Their model is already
succeeding -- it has helped the animals multiply over 50% from the year
before, and it keeps Maasai families together in the place they have
called home and have knowledgeably, sustainably cared for over
generations.
But this Indigenous-run model is a threat to the traditional models of
land management by governments, which means they are shut out of
traditional conservation grants.
And that’s why Nashulai is turning to people from around the world who
have the vision to see what a miracle this age-old way of tending the land
is, for every living thing, in newly urgent ways.
Our action now could save the lives of the next generation of elephants,
lions, monkeys, birds and hippos already on their way into this world. And
allow them to be born into a new model of land conservation that showcases
a symbiosis between humans and animals that the whole world needs; we
co-exist!
Chip in now to help. 50 dollars today can take down a fence and help
another acre of land flourish and thrive:
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$3
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We were part of the visionary community who supported the corridor’s
creation, we’ve helped it survive funding crises before. But this is our
chance to secure its future for the long haul, for the lifetime of those
beautiful baby elephants about to be born.
Thanks for all that you do,
Emma and the Ekō team
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More information:
[ [link removed] ]Nashulai Maasai Conservancy
[ [link removed] ]Kenya’s wildlife conservancies make old men rich, while making women
and young people poorer The Conversation 03 April 2024
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