Conservation
The Wood family have a longstanding connection with the Maasai community, the wildlife and the land, encouraging renewable practices that serve as a model for living in harmony with nature.
Lippa and Tarquin Wood are the founders of the Enonkishu Conservancy, where they work with 50 Maasai families to protect the surrounding wildlife grazing areas so the community can earn revenue from guests as well as from their cattle, in a holistic grazing plan, where wildlife and cattle can thrive together.
With the creation of the Enonkishu Conservancy, the Mara Training Centre and House in the Wild, money is raised through conservation fees and other community-based enterprises, to support sustainable rangeland management that allows space and resources for the people, cattle and wildlife. Enonkishu has been selected as a conservation partner with WWF, UNESCO and IHE as the pilot scheme in their regenerative rangelands project.
The award winning Enonkishu Conservancy has a large density and variety of game and has become a world class conservation area, where animals migrate freely between the neighbouring conservancies. There is a resident pride of lion, plenty of leopard and elephant take refuge in the shade of the forests and browse on the branches of the trees on the Kileleoni Hill. Night drives are offered and honey badgers, porcupines and aardvarks can often be seen.
Conservation fees are distributed to the landowning community that allows guests to traverse through Enonkishu, Lemek and Ol Chorro Oiruwa Conservancies, offering some spectacular landscapes and wildlife viewing.
Enonkishu Conservancy (Maa for place of healthy cattle) is a member of the Global Savory Hub Network, which is run under Holistic Management, enhancing environment, communities and revenues for the pastoralists and landowners in the region.
Read more about the House in the Wild conservation efforts - Futures in the Wild.
House in the Wild is a member of The Long Run.
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“We feel phenomenally lucky to be based in this beautiful part of the world, accepted by the incredible local communities and supporting the wildlife that surround us. So we have to work hard to make sure our presence here is working for them too!”
