Community

Roughly 50% of our staff on El Karama Wildlife Conservancy come from the local area, many of whom are women and young people. Skilled artisans are also employed on the Conservancy to carry out building, metalwork and woodwork.

El Karama Wildlife Conservancy leases grazing to members of the local community on a sustainable basis and also loans out our quality bulls to upgrade local herds. Hay grown in the Conservancy's hay fields is regularly sold to our neighbours and we purchase local livestock, such as sheep, for meat and foundation breeding.

El Karama Wildlife Conservancy and El Karama Lodge organise school visits from the local community to the Conservancy. The lodge also holds talks open to the public and training events, as well as providing scholarships and internships open to applicants from the local community. Lavinia Grant's series of 15 books about nature are ideal for educating children and are being used in local schools' conservation clubs run by North Kenya Conservation Clubs, a local charity based on Mpala Research Centre.

Milk from our Dairy is sold to local entrepreneurs from the neighbouring communities who resell it at a profit. Local transport services are also used for all the Conservancy's needs and procurement of goods for use in the Conservancy is done through local service providers.