Management of Grazing

As ongoing education, MWCT is working with a Maasai grazing committee to address overgrazing and bush fires. Historically, there was plenty of land for the Maasai to graze their livestock. Today the herds have increased while the land for grazing has decreased largely due to overpopulation. MWCT is working with educated Maasai warriors to show the influential elders the changes due to overgrazing. Grassland that was once dependable now is barren. Water that would flow in the past doesn’t arrive because it has been diverted upstream for unsustainable farming.

To demonstrate the direct effect of overgrazing and unsustainable farming, MWCT shows films in Maa (the Maasai language) and Kiswahili, which explain to a younger generation the detrimental changes in the local environment from the perspective of their elders. The films teach techniques such as rotational grazing and herd reduction as methods of saving the grasslands. MWCT is achieving meaningful results as the Maasai grasp the need for sustainable land management and understand the destructive effects of bush fires on the food available for both livestock and wildlife.