Big Life Honey

Protecting over 1.6 million acres of wilderness in the Amboseli-Tsavo-Kilimanjaro ecosystem of East Africa, Big Life partners with local communities to protect nature for the benefit of all.

Since its inception, Big Life has expanded to employ hundreds of local Maasai rangers—with more than 30 permanent outposts and tent-based field units, 14 patrol vehicles, 2 tracker dogs, and 2 planes for aerial surveillance.

Co-founded in September 2010 by photographer Nick Brandt, conservationist Richard Bonham, and entrepreneur Tom Hill, Big Life was the first organisation in East Africa to establish coordinated cross-border anti-poaching operations.

Using innovative conservation strategies and collaborating closely with local communities, partner NGOs, national parks, and government agencies, Big Life seeks to protect and sustain East Africa’s wildlife and wild lands, including one of the greatest populations of elephants left in East Africa.

The bee-keeping project was started a year ago in a vital wildlife corridor that links Amboseli National Park and the Chyulu and Tsavo protected areas, which is currently under threat from changes in land use. Big Life are already leasing the land, but want to provide additional benefits for the landowners in order to further increase the value to them of leaving their land for wildlife rather than development or farming. The aim is to produce a sustainable form of income that will go into a scholarship fund for their children.

This honey is harvested in the Kimana Wildlife Corridor in Amboseli, where the Maasai people share ancient paths with the elephants and other animals that traverse this ecosystem. 

This irreplaceable wild place is under threat, and by purchasing this honey you are helping to protect it.

All profits are invested where they can do most good; in an education scholarship fund that will ensure a better future for the human guardians of Kimana.

A gift from the bees, in return for saving the wild.

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