Conservation

Across the years Howard has been leading safaris through East Africa, he’s been involved with several outstanding conservation and research projects. The long term nature of the Mara Hyena Project, the Amboseli Trust for Elephants, the Amboseli Baboon Research Project and more recently the Mara Elephant Project. These programs have all built enormously valuable data which is being used for ground breaking scientific endeavor and helping to implement best the most effective wildlife conservation efforts.

Across the Amboseli – Tsavo landscape, a spectacular wilderness region, Lion Guardians, Big Life Foundation, and Tsavo Trust are all bringing enduring benefits to the wildlife, and in turn the communities who live here. By increasing the economic activity in these areas, and nurturing the resources that visitors come to Kenya to see, many more dynamic work opportunities have become available for the people who live alongside these magnificent but sometimes challenging animal neighbors.

In 2020 Howard founded (and ran) the inaugural Ultra Marathon, which has become an exciting annual event and has raised over $200,000 for the Mara Wildlife Conservancies in its first five years. Such home-grown initiatives are going to become ever more important to build sustainability in raising revenues for conservation.

In 2007 Howard founded Kenya Wildlife Trust (KWT) with his two Ker & Downey partners, Allan Earnshaw and James Robertson. KWT continues to be a driving force in predator conservation work in the Masai Mara, as well as having been an integral player in fostering the meaningful structure and self-reliance of the Wildlife Conservancies across the Masai Mara. A lot of Howard’s recent conservation work is in the Enonkishu Mara Conservancy where he’s based.