Contact addresses:

Edward Loosli - Chairman, The Wildlife Foundation - Kenya
President, The Wildlife Trust - U.S.A.: Ed-L@sbcglobal.net

Irina Katherina Wandera - Office Manager:
ikwandera@gmail.com

John Sinkeet Solonka - Field Director: sinkeet1@yahoo.co.uk










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The Wildlife Trust
120 La Bolsa Road
Walnut Creek, California USA 94598



Wildlife Conservation Lease Program

Thanks to the generous contributions from The Nature Conservancy (USA), the Kenya Wildlife Service and the contribution (Sept. 2009) from the Global Environment Facility through a World Bank/GEF Project, 55,000 acres of savanna grasslands and more than 380 Maasai families are living under the environmental protection of the Wildlife Conservation Lease Program managed by The Wildlife Foundation, up from 8,600 acres in 2007. Nairobi Nat. Park is approximately 28,500 acres, so this expansion of the Lease Program throughout the Nairobi National Park wildlife dispersal area almost triples the size of the ecosystem's protected habitat. Under the written terms of the Wildlife Conservation Lease contract, in return for a contribution of $4 per acre per year, individual Maasai landowners living outside the open un-fenced southern boundary of Nairobi N.P. agree to keep their lands un-fenced and un-cultivated. The landowners further agree to manage their land for wildlife, including lions, and sustainable livestock grazing, the traditional pastoral way of life that has well served both wildlife and the Maasai people for generations. ***** Please support these hard working people and the wildlife that share their land ******



Saturday, July 30, 2011

Other beautiful cats of Nairobi Nat. Park

Lions are the most famous of Nairobi Nat. Park's cats and their increasing numbers now are a refreshing change from the declines in lion numbers in other parts of East Africa. There are now over 30 lions in the Nairobi NP ecosystem and at the same time there are other, more elusive cats that frequent the Park and its environs. Ned Knocker took this wonderful photo of a serval cat in June. Also, caracal, civet and African wild-cats are present, but equally hard to spot. So many lions now inhabit the Park, that cheetahs have largely been pushed out of the Park into the open pastoral lands in the Park's wildlife dispersal area --- another good reason for protecting these vital private lands.
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