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, September 4, 2010

40,000 acres near Nairobi N.P. protected

As of September 2010, we have been able to add another 10,000 acres under the protection of the Wildlife Conservation Lease Programme. This brings a total of 40,000 acres (62 sq.miles) of the Nairobi Nat. Park dispersal area under land-use protection. Nairobi National Park is approximately 30,000 acres in size, so in effect, we have now been able to more than double the protected area of Kenya's first national park. Dozens of Maasai families, that have been on the "lease programme waiting list", have made this co-operative venture possible. The entire area looks beautiful and wildlife like big male lion "Ujonjo" are thriving. Photo by Will Knocker taken on 1 September 2010.
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