Press Cuttings & News Articles

This article by Mark Eveleigh is from the “Holland Herald” KLM inflight magazine (Dec 2021) and features our Ol Kinyei Conservancy in the Masai Mara.

An article from Kenya Airways’ inflight magazine (Oct-Nov 2021) about our role in setting up conservancies on community land in Kenya, first in Selenkay and then Ol Kinyei. These conservancies were the first of their kind in Kenya and this began an exciting new model of ecotourism with people and conservation at its centre.

An article by Mark Eveleigh on the Masai Mara, as featured in Ng’aali Magazine (the Uganda Airlines magazine), August 2021.

A report from Ol Kinyei Conservancy where our “Adopt-an-Acre” plan offers a way to support the conservancy while income from international tourism has been curtailed due to global travel restrictions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

An article for The Times of India by Nirmalya Banerjee explaining his life-changing decision to move to the African bush to run Porini Cheetah Camp.

Riju Mehta’s article for The Economic Times tells the story of how Nirmalya and Jui Banerjee fell in love with the wildlife of Kenya, and decided to change their lives by relocating to the Maasai Mara to run Porini Cheetah Camp.

An article for the Daily Record by Craig McDonald following his visit to Porini Cheetah Camp in Ol Kinyei Conservancy.

This article by Dave Masters for The Independent gives a clear insight into the importance of Kenya’s “conservancy” concept for the future of the country’s wildlife and people.

This wonderful article by Nirmalya Banerjee was featured in the Deccan Chronicle and the Asian Age newspapers.

Paula Murray’s feature for the Sunday Express following her visit to Porini Cheetah Camp in August 2017

This feature by Mei Capes gives a fascinating insight into a journey across Kenya, discovering bush and beach by using as many different types of transport as possible! It also includes some beautiful images and good tips for planning a safari.

Andy Hills from “Swara” (the magazine of the East African Wildlife Society) interviews our Managing Director Jake Grieves-Cook on Kenya’s tourism industry and the future for Kenya’s wildlife.

“A Luxury Travel Blog” – reputed to be one the most popular travel blogs in the world – interviews our Gamewatchers Safaris Managing Director Jake Grieves-Cook.

A radio interview with Jake Grieves-Cook on the South Africa radio channel Classic FM. Host Tamara Le-Pine talks to Jake about the conservancy concept which involves leasing land from communities adjacent to the parks and reserves to set it aside as a Wildlife Conservancy to expand the area of protected habitat for wild animals beyond the parks.

This generates income and benefits for the community and provides an exclusive wildlife viewing experience for visitors. Gamewatchers was one of the pioneers in developing this concept.

An article from The Deccan Herald featuring the exciting safari experience of Rostow Ravanan, CEO of software firm MindTree.

Our Managing Director Jake Grieves-Cook is interviewed by Nairobi’s The Star newspaper on the subject of marketing Kenya within the UK.

Environmental Journalist John Mbaria questions Jake Grieves-Cook, Managing Director of Gamewatchers Safaris, about his perspective on preventing poaching and conserving wildlife in Kenya.

As part of our ongoing work to improve the relationship between wildlife and communities, we invited 42 students from neighbouring schools to the Ol Kinyei Conservancy situated in the Maasai Mara to visit the Porini Mara Camp and to experience a game drive in the conservancy. See more in this Africa Geographical report.

Divya Gandhi from The Hindu spends time in Ol Kinyei Conservancy at Porini Cheetah Camp

Few visitors to Kenya have more experience in the Masai Mara than the writer Brian Jackman. His first book on the reserve, The Marsh Lions, written with Jonathan Scott, is being re-released and in this issue of Travel Africa magazine he writes about the new wildlife conservancies adjoining the Mara Reserve.

How the community-owned conservancies in the Mara are achieving a sustainable form of tourism, preserving the wildlife and providing genuine benefits for the Maasai community.

Porini’s “small is beautiful” conservation concept

Exploring how Gamewatchers Safaris & Porini Safari Camps and the wildlife conservancies on which they operate have made a positive contribution to the sustainability of tourism in Kenya.