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What is the Mara Triangle?
The Mara Triangle is the North-Western part of the world famous Masai Mara Game Reserve. It is managed by the not-for-profit organisation The Mara Conservancy, on behalf of the Trans-Mara County Council, Kenya.
Why is the Mara Triangle in trouble?
Our work is now threatened as a direct result of the collapse of tourism in Kenya. Due to lack of funds, all non-essential activities have been stopped since January, as well as the halting of the Cattle Compensation Scheme and regular night patrols by rangers.
We have been relying on kind donors to continue with crucial park operations, including de-snaring and anti-poaching patrols, to help meet our monthly shortfall of $50,000.
Why should I donate?
Your donation may seem like a drop in the ocean, but it is with thanks to donors like yourself that our work has been able to continue so far. The Mara Conservancy is widely recognised as an efficient conservation authority, and has seen considerable success in its management of the Mara Triangle.
What is WildlifeDirect?
WildlifeDirect allows people from across the world to support conservation groups by donating directly to work being done on the ground. When you make a donation on this page, 100% of your donation minus only a small bank fee, is given to the Mara Conservancy.
How do I know I am supporting good conservation?
Since its beginnings in 2001 The Mara Conservancy has been transparent in all its work, releasing monthly reports (available from here) that include everything from number of poachers arrested to total amount of revenue collected, and allow you to keep track of our work and be assured that your donation is being put to good use.
The proof is also in our results: since 2001 we have arrested well over 1,000 poachers, collected thousands upon thousands of wire snares, and seen an increase in the lion population.
Click here to read 10 Good Reasons for You to Support our Work.
If you should have any more questions please use the contact form on our website to get in touch with The Mara Conservancy directly, or click on the banner below to go to our website and find out more.
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This is a great summary!
I agree with Colleen - great summary. If only this stays on your Home page here, it makes sense for people to read about the Conservancy on your “own” website. Alot easier to maintain one rather than two website.
just set up a little monthly donation, feels indeed as a drop in the oceans, but a lot of drops will fill it at the end…Just wish I could donate more.
It took me some difficulty to fill out the amount on this website, maybe someone need to check it out. Couldn’t get the amount in the correct box, tended to “jump” to the currency box. Maybe some others had the same prob and couldn’t work around it. Tried Firefox & IE as browser.
Anyhow, keep up the good work! We’ll be visiting the Mara next September, might run into each other!
Oops, take back my previous comment on the boxes not working. Just read the page “How to donate” and that clarified it…
Sorry.
Thank you for clarifying - it was confusing before to know the difference between Mara Conservancy and Wildlife Direct.
Well done on the new website. I agree with Dana - it makes sense to keep this information about donating here in one place, and everything about the Conservancy over on your website.
It would be nice to have an easy link back to your website.
Thank you everyone. Admittedly I wasn’t too sure how we were going to do it with the two sites, but I think this works well. I will shortly put up some kind of link back to our main website.
Thank you Frans for your donation. It is quite confusing which is why we had to include the How to Donate page. WildlifeDirect say that they are currently working on a new design of the donation box.
There is also quite a lot of confusion between WildlifeDirect and its involvement with the work out on the field - I’m not sure if having their complete menu at the top of this blog helps things - but the service that they provide in getting donations from around the world to the bloggers is absolutely incredible.
Any suggestions on how we can further clarify or improve the site, please don’t hesitate in leaving a message. Thank you.
Interesting. I’ve been donating to Wildlife Direct for over a year now, but I thought it was one fund that covered everything. It looks like I’m just donating to the Gorilla protection. So is Wildlife Direct the donation “handler” and do I need to choose specifically which area I want my money to go by donating on their site? I would like to donate to the Mara as well as the gorilla protection.
Congrats to all of you in the Mara Conservancy for the amazing new site and transition. As far as independance and sustainability, I could not think of a better success to share and tell all that it is possible!
Hello Paul, yes WildlifeDirect is purely a donation handler, and visitors to the website should choose who they make their donation to by donating on a particular blog.
If you donate on the frontpage of WildlifeDirect then you are making a donation towards WildlifeDirect’s administrative costs.
Thank you for your support, and I’ll bring it to WildlifeDirect’s attention that the way it works probably needs to be clearer on the main website.
Thanks again.
Thanks William,
Now I understand why Wildlife Direct is so revolutionary! I’m overwhelmed at all the direct contact with different groups there are. Very exciting.