A healthy and intact landscape that sustains
Pastoralist Communities and Wildlife

Our Thematic Areas

Rangelands

Keeping pastoral rangelands open is core to achieving our vision of a healthy and intact landscape for people and wildlife.

Health and Well-being

The Maasai have lived with wildlife for centuries through their traditional semi-nomadic pastoral lifestyle, and what could be called a ‘culture of coexistence’.

Governance

Our work with conservation livelihoods involves strengthening the main local livelihood of pastoralism, supporting the development.

Education

As part of our education program, we host different groups – from interns to students from The Sprout Experience, University of New England.

Coexistence

It is estimated that a significant proportion of Kenya’s wildlife is found outside of formally protected areas, mainly on community land.

Our Landscape

Our Role

Our Approach

ABOUT SORALO

SORALO, the South Rift Association of Land Owners, is a distinctive organization deeply rooted in the Maasai pastoralist communities of Kenya’s South Rift Valley. Founded in 2004, it embodies a community-first approach that honors Maasai traditions, values, and voices while advancing innovative conservation and sustainable land management.

Where We Are

We work in Kenya's South Rift Valley, a Bridge between the Maasai Mara and Amboseli. In this area, local Maasai communities have lived with their livestock alongside wildlife, forests and grasslands maintaining a landscape of exeptional, biological and cultural diversity. This rangeland hosts one of the richest large mammal population on Earth, including both wildlife and livestock.

Growing as an Organization while bringing more Impact.

We work in Kenya’s South Rift Valley, a bridge between the Maasai Mara and Amboseli. In this area, local Maasai communities have lived with their livestock alongside wildlife, forests, and grasslands, maintaining a landscape of exceptional biological and cultural diversity. This rangeland hosts one of the richest large mammal populations on earth, including both wildlife and livestock. This co-existence is enabled primarily by the communal and semi-nomadic form of local land use, which encourages mobility to ensure survival. Today, this is an increasingly threatened landscape, confronting a growing population, a culture in transition, and land use changes that threaten both wildlife and their livestock.

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We ensure that your donation is used to support and further develop some of the most effective and sustainable community-based wildlife conservation programs in the world. Your generous contributions make our mission possible.

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A great strength of Maasai people, at least in the Southern Rift, lies in choosing how to adapt and evolve: welcoming what is useful but never letting go of important values and traditions. In part because of this, Maasai culture has survived – and been defended, maintained, and adapted – over centuries. While the most recent arrivals of technology such as motorbikes or mobile phones have made life easier for communities living across a vast landscape, they have been absorbed into – rather than changed - a pre-existing way of life. In many ways, SORALO as an organisation mirrors this same strength. Over the past twenty years, we have grown, learned and changed immensely.

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