The members of the Maasai Mara Science and Development Initiative (MMSDI) are deeply saddened by the news of the demise of Professor Richard Samson…

The thesis made by Line Ochelka, Cand.scient., Department of Biology, Aarhus University (Denmark) recommends to regulate the numbers of shoats and to include them in the current rotational grazing plan to avoid overgrazing.

This thesis, by Helena Johansen, cand.scient., Department of Biology, Aarhus University, Denmark, recommends maintaining a strong cohesive between fully-protected and semi-protected areas to maintain high wildlife populations and minimize competition between wildlife and cattle.

We now launches a number of virtual research sessions, where researchers present their projects and findings. The Talks are open to everybody and can be streamed on facebook or followed on Zoom.

In the recent paper by Haubek and coworkers (2021), published in the MDPI journal, Pathogens, it was reported that among 284 Kenyan adolescents from…

Covid-19 has turned everything upside down for the past year, and this is likewise true for the Mara. Tourism has suffered greatly and that was…

The team has also assisted the Ministry of Health with COVID19 sanitizers, masks and information activities.

A deep-learning based high-resolution mapping workflow was proposed. The woody vegetation densification is correlated with rainfall and human pressure.

The Mara ecosystem is heavily threatened, but conservation management can counteract negative trends. This is one of the conclusions of the newly published research article by an international team of researchers, all members of the research network of the Maasai Mara Science and Development Initiative.

Master thesis by David Bækby Houborg, Aarhus University shows that with a rotational grazing system, the conservancy supports wildlife populations as well as a recovery period of 5 months for the plant species richness and insect diversity.