Mara isinya conservation trust

19/01/2025

“Our Success or Stagnation depends on the level of Agreement that we have with the people around us.” & at the same time,“War is progress, peace is stagnation”

“Large does not always defeat little. Little can become large by constant building; large can become little by falling apart.”

Mara Isinya conservancy at it again!!!!!

31/12/2024

"Let our New Year's resolution be this: We will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word"- Goran Persson

Happy new year 2025 in advance.

25/12/2024

We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the lands and waters upon which we work & advocate for, and pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging. We celebrate the stories, culture and traditions of the Mara isinya community and recognise their continuing cultural connection and importance in caring for the biodiversity we are proud of and that makes us what we are today. Merry Christmas and happy holidays.

12/11/2024

World Pneumonia is celebrated every year on 12th November and it is aimed at helping to combat pneumonia, which is a severe killer among adults and children. This day is aimed at creating awareness, encouraging prevention strategies, and fundraising for this disease that is most likely to affect vulnerable groups. This day helps raise awareness about pneumonia and related respiratory infections as climatic change and environmental issues continue to cause more harm to the respiratory health of individuals.

Causes and Risk Factors

Pneumonia can be caused by bacteria, viruses, and fungi. Common pathogens include:

Bacteria: Streptococcus pneumoniae is the most frequent cause of bacterial pneumonia.

Viruses: Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), influenza, and coronaviruses are common viral causes.

Fungi: Fungal infections such as Pneumocystis jirovecii are more common in individuals with weakened immune systems.

Risk factors for pneumonia:

Age: Children under five and adults over 65 are at higher risk.

Malnutrition: A weakened immune system due to poor nutrition can increase susceptibility to infection.

Chronic Illnesses: Conditions like asthma, heart disease, and diabetes heighten the risk of pneumonia.

Environmental Factors: Air pollution, smoking, and exposure to secondhand smoke are significant contributors.

Immunosuppression: HIV/AIDS and cancer treatments can compromise the immune system, making individuals more vulnerable.

Environmental factors, particularly air pollution, contribute significantly to pneumonia cases worldwide.

09/11/2024

03/11/2024

November 3, 2024, marks the ninth annual One Health Day. One Health Day is a global campaign that celebrates and brings attention to the need for the One Health approach to address shared health threats at the human-animal-environment interface. The One Health approach can address a wide range of public health concerns like antimicrobial resistance, environmental health, food safety, mental health, vector-borne diseases, zoonotic diseases, and much more.

One Health Day provides an opportunity for experts and the community to join together in One Health education and awareness. Communication, coordination, and collaboration among partners working in animal, human, and environmental health as well as other relevant areas are an essential part of the One Health approach. Working together allows us to have the biggest impact on improving health for people, animals, plants, and our shared environment.

You can celebrate One Health Day every day by committing to working with experts in other sectors to achieve better health outcomes for all.

One Health is an integrated, unifying approach that aims to sustainably balance and optimize the health of people, animals and ecosystems. It recognizes that the health of humans, domestic and wild animals, plants, and the wider environment (including ecosystems) are closely linked and interdependent.

02/11/2024

The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 2 November as the ‘International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists’ in General Assembly Resolution A/RES/68/163. The Resolution urged Member States to implement definite measures countering the present culture of impunity. The date was chosen in commemoration of the assassination of two French journalists in Mali on 2 November 2013.

Safety of Journalists in Crises and Emergencies
Ending impunity for crimes against journalists is one of the most important and complex challenges of recent times. It is an essential precondition to guarantee freedom of expression and access to information for all citizens.

With the rise of conflicts and other crises, the 2024 observance seeks to promote a broader discussion on the safety of journalists working in these contexts, including the prevention, protection and prosecution concerns of journalists affected by such challenges.

Many journalists, media professionals, and associated media personnel exercise their duties in highly dangerous contexts. Too many pay an unacceptably high price, including death, enforced disappearance, torture, unlawful detention, and kidnapping, for producing independent, reliable, and verifiable information.

Did you know?
153 journalists have been killed in the line of duty in 2022-2023.*
117 journalists were killed in 2020-2021.
In 2020 and 2021, Latin America and the Caribbean accounted for 38% of killings, followed by Asia and the Pacific with 32% of killings.
Only 14 percent of cases of crimes against journalists are currently considered judicially resolved.
In 2021, the percentage of women among all journalists killed almost doubled, rising to 11% from 6% the previous year.

07/10/2024

Mara Isinya conservancy has achieved a milestone! An achievement it has never hoped of realizing that soon in the exercise that was overseen by MMWCA senior governance officer Daniel Ole Muli, Mara carbon project officer Bernard Leperes and MEP Assistant direct Peter Lokitela in recruiting a group of six rangers that comprised of Four men and two ladies. Today's exercise was a clear indication of a new dawn and a clear path to Mara Isinya conservancy witnessing what its landowners have always dreamt of for far too long.

22/09/2024

World Rhino Day, celebrated every 22 September, highlights the global effort to protect rhinos. The event raises awareness about rhino conservation and the threats they face. With growing challenges like poaching and habitat loss, this day serves as a call to action.

08/09/2024

Mara Isinya conservation area engaged the critical conversation team led by Mr Stems with three others (Atito, Neema & Mwangi) in discussing critical & sensitive issues that revolve around adverse environmental actions of man.
The team uses a pod 🫛 in highlighting & articulating their key points to discuss that guided by the theme "Active hope".

1) Gratitude-
we as a community were being reminded of the free things we get without working for; Free oxygen, rivers, herbal trees, wildlife and many others. These are the things we should be grateful for and ensure preserve for our future generations

2) Finite Earth-
This simply means that all what we have today can vanish and never be seen again if we can't control our ways of life and how we relate with our natural habitats. Wildlife which is a treasure and income generating source to us all through tourism could once become history for instance we no longer have animals like the black rhino 🦏, Grevy Zebra in the Mara, Greater Kudus,

3) Planetary pressures
Our ecosystems as both pastoralists & conservationists are subject to a number of pressures due to human activities like overstocking, Agriculture, deforestation, urbanization and land demarcation into private pieces of land thereby making it inhabitable to both humans and wildlife. If we can manage our human activities and control privatization of these habitats & control dispersal of human settlements we will have lasting results of coexistence.
NB- The team closed with the phrase, 'Every step/action counts'

Note~
At a personal level you can make a difference but together we can make a change.
To the critical conversation team we say thank you for these talks and we look forward to get more interactions like these in the near future. Thank you.

19/08/2024

This year, our World Humanitarian Day campaign brings together the global humanitarian community to mark the twentieth anniversary of the attack on the UN headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq, and to show our unwavering commitment to deliver for the communities we serve, no matter who, no matter where and .
FOR HUMANITY ~ 2024 WORLD HUMANITARIAN DAY

We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone." - ...
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11/08/2024

Created in 2011, and first celebrated in 2012, World Elephant Day is dedicated to the preservation and protection of the world's elephants. It was conceived by Canadian filmmakers Patricia Sims and Michael Clark of Canazwest Pictures, and Sivaporn Dardarananda, Secretary-General of the Elephant Reintroduction Foundation in Thailand.

The major goal is to create awareness of the plight of African and Asian elephants, and to share knowledge and positive solutions for the better care and management of captive and wild elephants.

African elephants are listed as Vulnerable and Asian elephants as Endangered on the IUCN Red List of threatened species. The major threats to elephants are poaching, habitat loss, human-elephant conflict, and mistreatment in captivity.

Elephant Facts & Trivia
Elephants are the largest existing land animals.

There are three currently recognized species: the African bush elephant, the African forest elephant, and the Asian elephant.

African elephants have larger ears and concave backs; Asian elephants have smaller ears and convex or level backs.

The African elephant’s trunk has two distinct “fingers” at its tip, whereas the Asian elephants have only one finger.

An elephant’s trunk is also called a proboscis; it’s used for breathing, bringing food and water to the mouth, and grasping objects.

The large ear flaps help elephants maintain a constant body temperature; they are also used for communication.

Elephant tusks are enlarged incisor teeth that continue growing throughout their lives.

A male elephant is called a bull, a female is a cow, and a baby is a calf.

A group of elephants is called a herd or a parade.

Mara Isinya conservation area as a breeding ground to many elephants in the Maasai Mara wishes you all a lovely elephant day 2024.