In Kenya, Maasai private landowners come together to protect wildlife corridors

In Kenya, Maasai private landowners come together to protect wildlife corridors

“Look, giraffes are walking in front of me. We have hundreds of them in our conservancy. There are zebras, too, see! And elephants,” Nelson Ole Reiyia describes during a phone interview with Mongabay, which quickly turned into a video call. Ole Reiyia is the co-founder of the Nashulai Maasai Conservancy, established in 2016 on the edges of the famous Maasai Mara National Reserve in southern Kenya’s Narok county, near the border with Tanzania. In…