Kilimanjaro kimana game sanctuary

He is said to have acquired property in prime areas like beach fronts and game reserves among them the Kimana Sanctuary. Big Life Foundation which was co-founded by photographer Nick Brandt and award-winning conservationist Richard Bonham in September has now employed local Maasai rangers in the Amboseli Tsavo West wildlife corridor for conservancy purposes.

The two are now destined to take over the Kimana Wildlife Sanctuary that was abandoned in by African Safari Club after protracted legal battles with the members of Kimana Tikondo group ranch over reportedly unpaid lease money and staff salaries.

The National Assembly Labour and Social Services Committee took up the unpaid salaries issue for all the redundant African Safari Club staff across the country and vowed to ensure they are compensated.

Apart from protecting two million acres of wilderness in the Amboseli-Tsavo-Kilimanjaro ecosystem of East Africa, they will put up quality cottages and a modern airstrip for tourists to land.

Big Life Foundation employs hundreds of Maasai rangers with more than 40 permanent outposts and tent-based field units, 13 vehicles, tracker dogs, and aerial surveillance protecting the two million acres of wilderness in Kajiado South and parts of Tanzania. It was the first organisation in East Africa to establish co-ordinated cross-border anti-poaching operations, while Olive Branch was the first to have interest in Kimana sanctuary and in leased the land at Sh, per month.

Each of the members of Kimana Tikondo group ranch gets Sh6, when they share dividends at the end of the year. Fencing of the Kimana Community Wildlife Sanctuary, a community tourism project is almost complete. The new group knocked down all the old structures put up by African Safari Club to pave way for new ones. The region is a settlement block dotted with furrow irrigated farms that depend on water from the many springs that flow from Mt. Located 15 km from Loitokitok, it is also strategically positioned along the Emali-Loitokitok highway that also crosses into Tanzania through Illasit and later Tarakea town across the border.

The town boasts of the largest livestock market that is managed by the county government, and which serves the local traders and those from Tanzania. Driven by booming trade in livestock and agricultural goods, Kimana is chocked by investors looking for commercial plots and other property to buy.

Kajiado South Sub County administrator, Japheth Saruni says the town has been growing steadily in the last five years, and attributed its growth to the main agricultural activity and the supply of tomatoes and onions to other regions across the country.

Farmlands with ripe tomatoes, onions, water melons, sukuma wiki collard greens and beans are a joy to the eye. Most of the plots are owned by individual small-holder farmers who either own or lease the land for as little as Sh5, , half-acre.

Most tourists travelling to Amboseli National Park pass through Kimana and most hotels in the game reserve buy their food rations from the town. Elephants use the area intensively. In the year-long period between 1st September and 1st September , Big Life rangers recorded elephant track movements in and out of the western border where the Kimana Sanctuary is linked to the Kimana conservancies by a narrow funnel almost 18 a day.

The sanctuary provides critical habitat for elephant bulls, but is well used by family herds at certain times of the year. The first fence has already had a huge impact in mitigating crop raiding and in the process saved many elephants from being killed or injured by farmers defending their crops, as well as protecting the farmers and their families. Kimana Sanctuary. Game Drive. The House. Maasai Olympics.