COMMUNITY
Mt Suswa is home to about 200 Maasai families who work mostly as shepherds. The Wildlife Conservancy is entirely community-led, which means all tourism profits stay in Suswa and help us support the following activities:
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Wildlife preservation and clean-up
- Tree planting
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Improving the roads
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Paying teacher salaries in local schools
FAUNA & FLORA
The goal of the Mt Suswa Conservancy is to preserve the area's spectacular biodiversity. The entire crater can be hiked, so visitors have many opportunities to admire our wildlife up close.
Mt Suswa is covered by a great variety of flora -- from giant fig trees to dainty mountain flowers. It is also home to may animals including baboons, leopards, spotted hyenas, civet cats, wild dogs, rock hyraxes
and many kinds of birds.
GEOLOGY
Mt Suswa is nestled in the heart of the Rift Valley.
The Mountain hides many spectacular geological features including our 12km double-crater and a network of subterranean caves carved, millennia ago, by roaring rivers of lava.
There are about 30 different entrances to the caves. Some have beautiful collapsed roofs, others are filled with giant bats. Our most famous cave is known as the "Baboon Parliament' because, every day, dozens of baboons gather in it to listen to their leader.