About Porini Camps

Extract from Porini Camps brochure.
The Porini Camps, situated inside the Conservancies, are exclusive small eco-friendly tented camps that accommodate a maximum of 20 guests. The camps consists of 6 to 10 spacious tents situated under acacia trees, comfortably furnished, lighted with solar power, with water-saving safari showers and flush toilets. Porini Camps are owned and run by Gamewatchers Safaris, a well established Kenyan safari company, which leases each conservancy, paying a monthly rental that increases annually, and which is also responsible for paying entry fees to the community for all visitors entering the conservancy. The income from the camps is used to manage and improve the conservancies, pay the lease and tourist entry fees and pay salaries of the camp staff and the conservancy rangers and workers. There are over 500 Maasai families who are directly benefiting as a result of the conservancies.The Mara eco-system where Ol Kinyei and Olare Orok Conservancies are located is under serious threat of being degraded and fragmented as land is being divided into individually owned plots. Tracts of wildlife habitat are being permanently lost with this subdivision of the community ranches. Many small individual landowners are now selling their plots to the highest bidders, who are setting up non-sustainable mass market concrete lodges or becoming involved in intensive farming and fencing of their small holdings. Snaring of herbivores and poisoning of big cats has increased and wildlife is being driven out.
So if you go to Kenya please ensure you go to somewhere that puts back into the community and not a big Lodge!! Please Mrs F