Sustainable safaris in Kenya

Cheetah, Mara Plains Camp by Alex Walker

Joanna Booth features our sustainable luxury southern Kenya safari in today's Travel Weekly. Two fantastic private conservancies provide the setting for this 7-night Kenya safari, the Olare Orok, north of the Masai Mara National Reserve, and in the foothills of the Chyulu Hills, with Kilimanjaro in the distance.
This, it seems to me, is the safari story. The Olare Orok camps have banded together, assumed the risk of dedicating the area to conservation themselves, guaranteed the Maasai landowners a fair rent - thereby protecting a vital wildlife dispersal area and providing visitors with an exceptional experience of game-viewing in the Masai Mara.
A complete contrast to those areas of the national reserve where the most numerous species to be seen is the mini-bus tourist; and where greed seems to have driven the Mara's remaining rhino over the border to the less disturbed Serengeti.