Our cultural tour looks into culture-based ecotourism ventures, such as the Noonkojak cultural boma initiative that seeks to enable the local women to earn through provision of homestay accommodation and the sale of indigenous, handcrafted jewellery.
Three things stand out as key in conservation of wildlife in community owned land in Amboseli ecosystem i.e. increasing community participation in decision making to create an environment for sound land use planning; creating economic incentives for conserving wildlife; and reducing the cost of living with wildlife through implementing prudent measures to manage the escalating human-wildlife conflict. The aim of the Community Partnership and Education Programme is therefore to push for sustainable conservation of community land. In particular, the programme has four objectives that seek to address issues of land use planning, human-wildlife conflicts (HWC), environmental education, and increasing benefits accruing from natural resource management and use. Key management actions that will be implemented under this programme include supporting establishment of community wildlife conservation areas in the group ranches to safeguard wildlife corridors, rehabilitating and maintaining wildlife barriers, expanding the conflict consolation scheme to cover the entire ecosystem, and establishing a Maasai Cultural Museum in Mbirikani Group ranch.
What makes the Maasai culture famous is the fact that the culture has remained largely unchanged in the midst of western influence. The traditionally semi – nomadic Maasai tribe has held on to their culture. Their largely livestock grazing lifestyle has been important in conserving wildlife resources in the Amboseli Ecosystem
