Updates from the Field
Updates from the Field
3rd June 2020
Three women-led businesses supporting conservation

How can a hat, a painting and a shirt make a difference for conservation?  Check out these three women-led businesses that are donating a portion of their proceeds...

Updates from the Field
Updates from the Field
23rd May 2020
Responding to COVID-19

The Relationships department has taken on a new role with the arrival of COVID-19 – to...

Updates from the Field
Updates from the Field
21st April 2020
Art for Good

Over the last week we have seen an enormous amount of support from around the world and we are so appreciative of all the people who took...

Updates from the Field
Updates from the Field
10th April 2020
Field Ranger Training

An Update by Andrew Crichton from Veterans for Wildlife: We face uncertain times – there is no question of that. However, without sounding too...

Updates from the Field
Updates from the Field
30th March 2020
In the Air

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their gruelling travels across trackless lands in prehistoric...

Updates from the Field
Updates from the Field
8th March 2020
Equality in the western Serengeti

While we have not solved inequality and women around the world continue to suffer from marginalization – whether you are in Africa or America – we can see...

Updates from the Field
Updates from the Field
3rd March 2020
Protecting Wildlife and Human Lives in the Western Corridor of the Serengeti

A 30 km long (soon to be 60 + km) fence stands along the northern border of the Grumeti concessions. This fence is the first of its kind in Tanzania and forms part of...

Updates from the Field
Updates from the Field
20th February 2020
Lost in Translation: The Hardship Of Transitioning From Swahili Primary Education To English Secondary Education

It’s two months into Form I (grade 8) but it’s clear as day that Mwamvita wouldn’t be successful here. Although she successfully completed grade seven at...

Updates from the Field
Updates from the Field
14th February 2020
A Rhino Love Story

It’s Valentine’s Day and the thing we are most in love with at the moment is a very sweet black rhino calf named Zaituni (Kiswahili for Olive).  Zaituni actually...

Updates from the Field
Updates from the Field
31st January 2020
The Year Ahead

Tackling and solving the concurrent challenges of rural poverty and ecosystem degradation is an extremely difficult undertaking. News outlets, social media...

Updates from the Field
Updates from the Field
24th January 2020
How Education is Creating Change in the Western Serengeti

“Elimu ni shina la maendeleo” the Swahili saying goes. It means education is the root of development, and we here at the Grumeti Fund wholeheartedly...

Updates from the Field
Updates from the Field
4th December 2019
On Imparting Environmental Awareness to Youth

Since its inception in 2009, the Grumeti Fund Environmental Education Center (EEC) has seen over 5,000 students and teachers come through its open-air classroom. ...