In 2020 the Saving the Wild Bee Keeping Project was launched in Kenya in the race to save the Kimana Wildlife Corridor and secure critical wild land for elephants and all wildlife in the greater Amboseli ecosystem. To support the project, Saving the Wild produced ‘Kimana Tuskers’, an award-winning short film of epic proportions that tells the story of a vanishing landscape, seen through the eyes of vanishing giants. So far 200 hives have been successfully rolled out – with profits from the sale of the honey invested into an education scholarship fund for daughters of the Maasai landowners.
The next phase will fulfil Saving the Wild’s longterm vision of women empowerment in Africa…
Saving the Wild WOMEN: Financial independence through beekeeping.
July 14th 2022: Official Launch of Saving the Wild WOMEN, with so far 100 colonized hives.
Spanning Southern Africa and East Africa, Saving the Wild WOMEN is our lifetime commitment to women empowerment and cultural diversity.
Saving the Wild’s inaugural project begins in Kenya, continuing the race to secure wild land in the Kimana Wildlife Corridor, except this time there is a cultural shift taking place in what is traditionally a patriarchal society. We’re betting on young Maasai women living in Kimana to lead from the front, and gain financial independence through bee keeping and the arts.
Currently aged between 16 and 21, over the next four years they will be mentored by world class bee keepers and entrepreneurs, and in four years time they will be handed the keys to the business, or in this case, the bee houses. Sometimes there really is a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, because honey is the gift that keeps on giving…
Key Objectives, with so far eight young women aged between 16 and 21 in training to become bee keeping entrepreneurs.
- Working in harmony with nature to enable women empowerment and financial independence.
- Securing wild land within the Kimana Wildlife Corridor and Greater Amboseli ecosystem, thus ensuring a future for the last great tuskers, all elephants and all wildlife.
- Increase the population of bees, creating a more healthy and robust ecosystem. Preservation of bee colonies is vital to the planet – with at least one third of food production reliant on bees.
