Controversies

Three articles worth reading...

Pissing on the Maasai Mara
Wycliffe Muga visits Kenya's most famous National Reserve for wildlife and stumbles across controversies and turf wars.

What's Really Happening in the Mara
IT is generally acknowledged that the Maasai Mara National Reserve owes its very existence to the local Maasai communities, and that if the Maasai of Narok were to decide that this fabled game park did not serve their interests, there is nothing the government could do to stop them from wiping out the entire wildlife population of the Mara.

Impunity in Maasai Mara
THE Maasai Mara is Kenya's premier tourist attraction but it is sadly abused. It has lost half its wildlife in five years. In another ten years foreign tourists may no longer be interested in going there.

Grey-Crowned Cranes...with babies.

TWUF MEETING

The Trans-boundary Water User's Forum Meeting in Narok.

Carl and the bushbuck.

A bushbuck walks past Carl as he interviews the manager of Siana Springs.

Amanda's Interview

At a spring protected by the Mara River Water User's Association with funding from USAID and Coca Cola.

Kennedy's Interview

The manager of the Mara River Water User's Association being interviewed by Carl Kesser.

Mara River Flows Newsletter - February 2010

Now available, the February issue of the Mara River Flows Newsletter.

Read it and discover the answers to the following questions and more...

• How are recent events at Lake Naivasha related to the Mara River?
• Why would new lodge construction next to the river really have that much of an impact?
• What research is currently ongoing in the upper catchment?
• Why is the Mara River Water User's Association important to the protection and conservation of the Mara River?

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The Ruvu

Foothills of the Eastern Arc Mountains

Morogoro,  Tanzania.