The Koiyaki Guide School & Wilderness Camp is owned and managed by the Maasai community. It is on the northern boundary of the Maasai Mara Game Reserve, and is an important distribution area for the wildlife. It forms the northern-most end of the great Serengeti-Mara wildebeest migration and supports a hale and hearty population of lions, leopards, cheetahs, and a great diversity of other mammalian and avian species. The northern section of the Group Ranch is infested with tsetse and is un-utilized by livestock. This has resulted in low utilisation of the land meaning it is of no benefit to the Maasai living in the surrounding areas.

The aim of the project is to equip local Maasai people through practical training, with skills necessary for their full participation in the conservation and management of wildlife and related projects through enrolment in the Koiyaki Guiding School. This will enhance the conservation of the Mara wildlife dispersal zone by converting a tsetse fly infested region already threatened by infringement by farmers into an economically feasible conservation area.

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