“I would like to think that women have the added advantage of a great ability to trust their intuition, which is a great attribute to have in ranger work. This coupled with our ability to bring our ...

Kenya’s wildlife service has rejected claims that a new Ritz-Carlton luxury lodge is blocking a wildebeest migration corridor ...

KIMANA SANCTUARY, Kenya -- Kenya's most identifiable community is abandoning hunting lions with spears for javelin throwing at a biannual event called the Maasai Olympics. The Maasai people, renowned ...

Namnyak, a Maasai herder in north Tanzania, fears a carbon credit scheme linked to Volkswagen -- dismissed by NGOs as "greenwashing" -- could destroy her community's way of life.

From weary smiles to revived stalls, artisans reflect on reopening after a week that shut down their livelihood ...

This story is published as part of the Global Indigenous Affairs Desk, an Indigenous-led collaboration between Grist, High Country News, ICT, Mongabay, and Native News Online. In Tanzania, the ...

The Maasai Mara, even the name carries a whisper of legend. It is one of East Africa’s most sought-after travel destinations, famed for the annual wildebeest migration, when over a million animals ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. Wildebeests cross the Mara River during their migration to greener pastures between the Maasai Mara game reserve and ...

Longido, Tanzania – Life used to be good, according to Kariungi Leng’ese, a Maasai elder in northern Tanzania. “When I was young, we never had droughts like this. Life was good,” he said. “Nowadays, ...

When you give a Maasai warrior a 7-iron, he instinctively compares it to the spear in his other hand. He carries that traditional, effective weapon every day from his adolescent rites of passage ...

Wildebeests cross the Mara River during their migration to greener pastures between the Maasai Mara game reserve and the open plains of the Serengeti, southwest of Kenya's capital Nairobi. [Reuters] A ...