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Protecting the Ivory: Elephant Conservation

The Maasai Tribe

An Original Educational Series by Belouga & Big Life Foundation

Subjects Covered: Geography, Social Studies


The Maasai are a Nilotic ethnic group inhabiting southern Kenyan and northern Tanzania. Nilotic refers to the Nile River region in Africa.      

About Big Life Foundation

Big Life was co-founded by photographer Nick Brandt and award-winning conservationist Richard Bonham in September 2010.Since its inception, Big Life has expanded to employ hundreds of Maasai rangers—with more than 40 permanent outposts and tent-based field units, 13 vehicles, tracker dogs, and aerial surveillance—protecting 2 million acres of wilderness in the Amboseli-Tsavo-Kilimanjaro ecosystem of East Africa.Big Life was the first organization in East Africa to establish coordinated cross-border anti-poaching operations.

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