Data suggest that the decline is due to predation on juveniles. Students conducted an assessment of the socio-economic impacts of the Kimana Wildlife Sanctuary, the first private reserve operated on a Maasai group ranch. Ranch managers are using these data to develop sustainable management policies. SFS teams helped build a library in the town of Magadi and taught the local schoolchildren about the environment through skits, songs, and readings. Oryx and vervet monkeys, umbrella shaped thorn trees, wildebeest, impala and a diverse array of tropical birds are reminders that we are in Africa.
Students sleep in thatched bandas.
Starting in Fall 1999, we will also operate from a second base camp on the Kuku Maasai group ranch near Amboseli National Park. Students sleep in large tents at this remote and rustic setting, rising each day to a view of Mt. Kilamanjaro in the distance.