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










Send tax-deductable checks to:

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, January 5, 2008

Happy New Year from Nairobi National Park

With the chaos resulting from the recent disputed elections, perhaps the calmest place in Kenya was Nairobi National Park, usually one of the wildest places around. We welcome all who can view this new web-site/blog and hope you will join our efforts to help conserve the entire Nairobi National Park ecosystem from the forested lands of the NorthWest part of the Park to the rolling semi-arid savanna grasslands in the South largely owned by our Maasai partners, who share our devotion to the conservation of the entire ecosystem. Nairobi National Park is one of the most popular and successful of Kenya's protected areas. In fact, it is so successful that some of the income derived from tourist revenue contributes to the support of other important protected areas that do not have a large tourist base.
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