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The Governors lodge supports the Mara Rianda Charitable Trust and have installed a windmill and piping, and constructed water storage & distribution systems at Aitong Primary School to pump water from a nearby spring directly to the school. Also, every term 5 – 20 desks are sent to either Aitong or Mararianda Primary School to build up their furniture stocks and help them meet their ever-increasing demand. All of the staff at The Govenors Lodge are from the local area, and all of the food served at the lodge has been produced locally. The lodge has been awarded a Silver eco-rating from Tourism Kenya for their green practices.
Govenors camp have implemented a zero waste policy which means that all waste is sorted, separated and all recyclable material is then processed for recycling. In addition to this, in order to lessen our dependence on fossil fuels we have introduced a program to use recycled fuel for our hot water systems. We have recently started a recycling project in Ongata Rongai, near Nairobi. The project employs disadvantaged youth from the local area and uses all the governors’ waste paper and cardboard to make recycled paper briquettes, which we then buy off the project. These recycled briquettes are used to fire our new hot water system at Governors Camp which we hope will be 99% fired by recycled fuels.
Governors’ Camp Collection is now working with the Mara Predator Project to help protect and conserve lions. Throughout Africa lions face extinction because they attack livestock in areas outside National Park boundaries and are killed in retaliation. The Mara Predator Project carries our science based conservation working to reduce the cost of predators to livestock and people. They do this by improving livestock practices, studying the behaviour and ecology of predators living alongside humans and monitoring their response to conservation actions.
With the help of camp guides and visitors the Mara Predator Project is monitoring the lions in and around the northern Masai Mara. By building an identification database of lions the project is able to track individuals and therefore identify pride home and population trends allowing the project to apply effective conservation techniques.
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