KAJIADO, Kenya (AP) — The blood, milk and meat of cattle have long been staple foods for Maasai pastoralists in Kenya, perhaps the country's most recognizable community. But climate change is ...

Researchers and conservationists identified the Maasai practice of grazing their cattle on the protected land as a driver of those declines. Butt, however, has questioned the contexts under which ...

Conventional conservation wisdom has held that cattle herds managed by Indigenous Maasai in East Africa compete with wildlife for grazing land and degrade protected areas like Kenya’s Maasai ...

The Maasai have roamed Tanzania since time immemorial. Cattle in tow, the East African pastoralists have circled the land looking for fresh grass, co-existing with nature for as long as anyone can ...

Researchers and conservationists identified the Maasai practice of grazing their cattle on the protected land as a driver of those declines. Butt, however, has questioned the contexts under which ...

This story appears in the August 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. A young male lion was one of three members of Kenya’s famous Marsh Pride to die in 2015 after eating a cow carcass ...

Goldman was in Tanzania in 2009, during the drought, which wreaked havoc on pastures and on Maasai cattle. Drought is not uncommon in East Africa. But the 2009 drought was particularly detrimental. In ...

Members of the Maasai tribe in Tanzania have gone viral recently as they have begun to experiment with social networks and modern technology. They have also begun to experiment with fast food ...

ARUSHA, Tanzania—The Maasai once herded their cattle across the plains of what is now southern Kenya and northern Tanzania. The British colonial government split off a 2 million-acre tract for ...