“I would like to think that women have the added advantage of a great ability to trust their intuition, which is a great attribute to have in ranger work. This coupled with our ability to bring our ...

Few communities reveal both the challenges and opportunities presented by cultural globalism more than Maasai communities in northern Tanzania. Traditionally pastoralists, the Maasai ethnic group’s ...

The Mara Napa Luxury Camp & Conservation is a high-end retreat situated along the Talek River, right next to the Masai Mara National Reserve. The camp is 2.6 miles from Talek town and about 250 km ...

When you give a Maasai warrior a 7-iron, he instinctively compares it to the spear in his other hand. He carries that traditional, effective weapon every day from his adolescent rites of passage ...

Longido, Tanzania – Life used to be good, according to Kariungi Leng’ese, a Maasai elder in northern Tanzania. “When I was young, we never had droughts like this. Life was good,” he said. “Nowadays, ...

Trophy hunting interests are turning the screw on northern Tanzania's Maasai communities and wildlife paradise. Meanwhile, well-funded conservation efforts are attracting scrutiny amid rising Maasai ...

Maasai guide Benson Taleng’o recounted his once-in-a-lifetime experience touring Twitch star IShowSpeed in Maasai Mara, ...

In the early hours of Aug. 18, thousands of Indigenous Maasai people blocked the road to one of Tanzania’s biggest tourist attractions, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA), in protest against the ...

Namnyak, a Maasai herder in north Tanzania, fears a carbon credit scheme linked to Volkswagen -- dismissed by NGOs as "greenwashing" -- could destroy her community's way of life. The Barron's news ...