Nashulai Maasai Conservancy

A 2020 UNDP Equator Prize winner Nashulais mission is: Conserve Wildlife-Preserve Culture-Reverse Poverty. In 2016, facing poverty and biodiversity collapse on our land our community of 3,000 rallied together to create the first indigenous owned/run conservancy in East Africa. Under our mixed-use model pooling our 5000 acres, we tore down all fencing, creating a commons where we reverted to rotation grazing and reopened a key migration corridor. In just 4 years theres been a massive restoration of the ecosystem, home to several engendered species, an elephant nursery, and a bird sanctuary. We invested in education and funded sustainable development programs to benefit our entire community. We built a primary school, acquired a school bus, and started a communal gender parity Bursary Fund providing 62 children with post-primary education. Weve hired residents as staff and our Cultural Training Institute provides skills for Maasai culturally-informed conservation jobs. We built a pot...