there are only a handful of places left on Earth where humans and animals live in complete Harmony in the heart of Africa in Kenya lies the Masai [Music] Mara I came here one year ago while Building 100 Wells throughout Africa where I met the Masai tribe an ancient nomadic group that have preserved their culture and way of living for centuries but just like we see an other places across the globe greed and human ignorance pose the biggest threat to the Natural World animals find their habitat threatened by human activities plastic has reached every corner of the globe this threatens everyone 1 million animals around the world are now at risk of [Music] Extinction but there is a glimmer of hope this is the Masai Mara Wildlife conserves association a group of local Masai people that are doing everything they can to preserve what's left through a combination of traditional methods and modern-day techniques like data science and Analysis riding poaching almost entirely and protecting the remaining natural resources but there are now more pressing challenges being faced that nobody is talking about so Dan and Darren went back to the Masai Mara to see how we can further help this community and not far from the campsite Dan and Darren came across something extraordinary [Music] oh my this is Elizabeth one of the endangered white rhinos the Rangers protect what a beautiful animal it's unbelievable like it the power you can like feel it 27 years you've been with these animals yeah so they're like children to you yes these Rangers work day and night to ensure the protection of these endangered animals and because they are all local Messi people they have a deeper understanding of of who they are as Shepherds of the wildlife when we arrived at the campsite we met with Daniel the CEO of the Masai conserves to find out what other challenges they are facing if you look at the last 40 years scientific information shows a decline of wildlife numbers and nearly 40% of the wildlife have been lost and this was as a result of habitat destructions in particular the downfall in the mara all started 60 years ago when the land was divided and given to the Masai people for private ownership this led to investors buying the land for development and exploitation of resources many Masai had no choice but to accept the money abandoning their ancestral heritage and putting the habitat that millions of masi and animals rely on at risk of being destroyed to combat this problem the conservancies came up with a plan to incentivize land owners to lease their land to the Masai Conservancy in return for a monthly payment so that they could preserve their territory and traditions this idea of conserv is just strengthening our relationship with wildli and nature that those people who are considered as custodians of wild animals are now benefiting in the last 18 years more than 24 conservancies have been formed in the Masai Mara allowing for the Masai tribe and Wildlife to flourish together but Tarn the lead project manager for the Conservancy told us that natural disasters and weather events like climate change have proven to be the biggest problem that the m side now faces sadly we've had some really unexpected weather events we've had massive flooding events we've lost property in the form of Tourism camps and more importantly we've lost lives from some of the Rangers who work out here to protect this this valuable ecosystem we've seen quite devastating uh floods they're coming back from their normal patrols they found that water level has risen in the river so they were actually trying to cross the vehicles was toppled over by the uh strong currents of the water and out of the seven Rangers two Rangers lost their lives they lost their lives in the line of duty protecting our precious natural resources we're trying to find a way to support the affected families both Rangers had large families who they provided for on a daily basis and their tragic death has now left the families without a source of income hopefully in the future we can have an alert system to avoid these sorts of tragedies ever happening again one way the conservancies are looking to combat this problem is through the installation of weather stations weather stations are crucial for doing the ecosystem monitoring work and ultimately being able to make informed ecosystem management decisions that go into the conservation effort here another struggle is the complete lack of electricity at the range of Base camps which makes basic tasks like charging a flashlight and powering the current weather stations extremely difficult this all goes in to form the backbone infrastructure that these Rangers need to be able to do effective ecosystem monitoring and ecosystem management work and that's been a big shift in how conservation has worked in this landscape over the past 20 years it feels like we're at an inflection point in time right now and if we don't do something about this it may be lost forever we want to do everything we can to make a long lasting impact on the conservation in the Masai Mara so Darren met up with Michelle the president from our long-term Partners give power they have been working with the conserves in generating clean energy for the Rangers give power will be supplying the whole ranger station with clean energy to give light at night and most importantly power the weather stations and sensors to predict environmental changes and events to protect the Masai people and furthermore expand the protected Masai Mara areas so I got very excited about the opportunity to bring power to some of these ranger stations we also got the opportunity to create a digital connection to be able to transmit important information that they gather in the field to A system that would allow us to start creating carbon credits carbon credits are bought by companies to offset their carbon footprint and allows them to release a certain amount of greenhouse gases if the Conservancy gets additional weather stations they will be able to sell the carbon credits to companies that need it in order to continually expand and protect the Masai Mara in addition to the seven weather stations and solar grids that we installed Darren is just about to surprise Daniel with even more Daniel we we're going to pay for five more weather stations have no words to express gratitude and the mara community on I'm speaking on their behalf thousands and thousands of those landowners who are not here they are going to be very very happy [Music] thanks to all the work that has been done on this project this will make it possible for the Rangers to be well equipped for their fight to protect the wildlife the conservancies will also be able to generate their own income from the carbon projects allowing for enough funds to lease out more lands that will provide larger areas for the Wildlife to thrive as well as offer the messai people the opportunity to live as they have done for centuries we also ensuring that the new generations will have to continue on what we have started because it is also actually changing their livelihoods it is actually providing income to thousands and thousands of households it's a blessing to us even after our donation and Daniel's immense gratitude for this to all become a reality the Masai Mara still needs an additional five weather and power stations which totals to the amount of $100,000 and that is where we need your help so please click the Donate button below every single dollar makes a difference before Dan and Darren left they went to visit the families that lost husbands and fathers in the massive flooding Daniel then explained that Beast philanthropy will be donating enough money to cover their living expenses for an entire year lifting this massive financial burden off their shoulders the Rangers paid the ultimate sacrifice to protect and preserve this land it's extremely important that we all do what we can to support the organizations making a massive change in the mara we have a short opportunity to take action and do something about it before it's too late it's thanks to all of you watching and donating that we can do projects like this with organizations that are protecting our planet and its nature so again please click the donation button so that we can hit our goal of $100,000 to complete this project