Conservation

• The Cottars were involved in the successful construction of a community school and finance the teachers' wages.
• Currently supplying two local clinics with medical provisions while coordinating AMREF to airlift medical emergencies.
• Operating a repeater VHF station and 5 radios with which the community scouts can liaison on ambulance and medical needs, security issues and wildlife poaching incidents.
• They continuously promote women's handiwork for sale, and initiated a community bee-keeping project.
• Cottars led a successful bid to stop a major lodge development in the Mara National Reserve (using National Environment Management Authority Public Complaints Committee Tribunal) which would have permanently damaged the last wilderness area in the Reserve and set precedence for other developments in the Reserve despite a moratorium on any new developments.
• Cottars also support a Forest Protection Program - protecting cedar trees on hills neighbouring the camp.
• Cottars' future vision is to offer the Maasai landowners of Olderikesi, a lease agreement for 10,000 acres of their ranch at payment rates equitable to competing land uses such as agriculture or monoculture domestic stock (cattle etc), which would allow control of stocking rates and livestock grazing areas, to enhance wildlife-viewing in the camp's surrounding area. To this end, they have assisted the community to start their own Community Based Organisation to receive and channel funds raised from conservation fees paid by tourism, and donations, into community projects. They have leased numerous sites in the area to distribute more revenue within the community and keep the area in the pristine wilderness state that nature sustained it in over the centuries.