“I would like to think that women have the added advantage of a great ability to trust their intuition, which is a great attribute to have in ranger work. This coupled with our ability to bring our ...

Few communities reveal both the challenges and opportunities presented by cultural globalism more than Maasai communities in northern Tanzania. Traditionally pastoralists, the Maasai ethnic group’s ...

A manyatta guest room at Twala Tenebo Women Cultural Centre in Laikipia North. The units are owned by two women groups. Before she joined a group of women to do business, Ms Gladys Meshami totally ...

Conservationist Lanoi Meitiekini, a leader of the nomadic Maasai tribe in Kenya, has witnessed the disastrous effects of hotter global temperatures firsthand. A deadly combination of extreme heat and ...

Rosemary Nenini watched helplessly as her husband’s cattle perished daily during a drought that lasted from 2020 to 2022.

Research Location: Implemented: Kenya Conservation Partners: South Rift Association of Land Owners (SORALO) and Conservation Nation Corinne Boyd '26, Major: Integrative Conservation Jana Smith-Perry ...

Five years ago, Tanzanian authorities set out to push the Indigenous Maasai off their ancestral lands in the famed Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Despite global outcry over the forced removals, this ...

The Maasai ruled the plains from Lake Turkana to the north and Lake Manyara to the north of Tanzania. Their sphere of influence could be traced from Meru to the east, Kwale at the coast and Mumias to ...

20-something California entrepreneur Mindy Budgor wanted to find meaning beyond mani pedis, just-out-of-the-oven croissants (her fave), and her BMW, so she decided to become the Maasai tribe’s ...