MARA OSERO CONSERVATION PROJECT

Mara Osero Project situated on the western part of Mara North Conservancy, is wildlife conservation project and also a campsite people visiting the great Maasai Mara Park. The project was established in 2015 with the main mission of providing a sustainable correlation between human beings and wildlife. The project exists to conserve wildlife, preserve culture, minimize human-wildlife conflict, and engage in climate control practices. It is located within the Maasai community which is a unique and popular tribe due to their long preserved culture of their traditional way of life, making them a symbol of Kenyan culture. Maasai's distinctive culture, dress style and strategic territory along the game parks of Kenya and Tanzania have made them one of East Africa's most internationally famous tourist attractions. The project offers volunteers an opportunity to interact with wildlife, engage in conservation, explore, learn and interact with the Maasai community and their culture. The Mara conservation gives them a platform to serve, interact and also live like the Maasai people. Above all, the conservancy is managed according to a model that protects the delicate eco-system and benefits the landowners who are the Maasai people. The wildlife at the conservancy comprises of the big cats, antelopes, elephants, zebras, wildebeests among others. There are wooded acacia and bushes within savannah plains, undulating hills which provide a varied habitat for browsing and grazing ungulates, as well as hideout thickets for the predators. The Mara River runs alongside the conservancy. There is a large number of giraffe and resident buffalo that live close to the Olerai boundary along the Mara River. Elephants frequent the conservancy and there is a pride of lion based on the edge of oloisukut. There are many hippos and crocodiles in the section of the river that borders the conservancy and the riverine forests which provide an area popular with leopards. The project has so far been able to assist The Kenya Wildlife Service to recue animals by providing timely reports and preventing human-wildlife conflicts.