The Wildlife Habitat Trust

About our NGO partner

OUR MISSION IS TO HELP PRESERVE AFRICA’S HABITATS WHILST WORKING WITH LOCAL COMMUNITIES.

The Wildlife Habitat Trust was created to address the urgent challenge of habitat loss. The land available for conservation in much of Kenya is rapidly shrinking due to increased human populations with settlements and urbanization expanding into wildlife dispersal areas. The Trust supports the wildlife conservancies on community lands in the Maasai Mara and Amboseli eco-systems, home to more than a quarter of Kenya’s wildlife, including elephants, the big cats, over a million migrating wildebeest, and hundreds of thousands of zebra and gazelles.

Together with a few other like-minded safari tourism companies and in partnership with local Maasai communities , Gamewatchers Safaris has been instrumental in adding 120,000 acres of protected wildlife habitat adjacent to the Mara Reserve in the form of three adjoining wildlife conservancies: Ol Kinyei, Naboisho , Olare Motorogi and Mara Ripoi on land leased from thousands of individual Maasai families. In addition to the Mara, they had previously set up the Selenkay Conservancy, on 12,500 acres of community land in the Amboseli eco-system which has been a great success in conserving the wildlife dispersal area and eco-system beyond Amboseli National Park, especially for elephants and big cats.