Big Life employs hundreds of local Maasai rangers to protect the Greater Amboseli ecosystem. Big Life’s rangers are expertly trained and well-equipped, working around-the-clock to protect and secure some of the world’s most iconic species and their habitats.

With animals constantly moving beyond protected park boundaries into unprotected areas with increasing human populations, the future for conservation will be determined by working closely with and supporting local communities. This is the heart of Big Life’s ethos: if conservation supports the local community, then the local community will support conservation.

These community rangers are the embodiment of that ethos and the heart of Big Life’s operations protecting wildlife and wild lands. They’re on the frontlines of conservation, operating in sometimes dangerous conditions, often away from their families for weeks at a time to protect some of earth’s most treasured wildlife.

Big Life’s rangers conduct extensive daily patrols on foot and by vehicle to gather intelligence, detect and intercept illegal activity, monitor activity via hidden field cameras, and use the latest night-vision and GPS technology to thwart poachers and prevent habitat destruction. Working alongside Kenya Wildlife Service and our network of informers from local communities, Big Life rangers are able to prevent most instances of poaching and successfully apprehend poachers who do manage to kill. Once poachers are apprehended, Big Life works with local prosecutors to ensure that they are punished to the fullest, and most appropriate, extent of the law.

323 Trained Rangers

42 Ranger Units

30 Permanent Outposts

5 Mobile Units

1 Rapid Deployment Unit

2 Tracker Dogs

14 Patrol Vehicles

2 Airplanes

FEATURED RANGERS

Jul 25, 2019 - Big Life Wins Rhino Conservation Award



Jul 23, 2019 - STORIES FROM THE FRONTLINES: CORPORAL MEJAI OLE’KUMARI



Jul 15, 2019 - STORIES FROM THE FRONTLINES: CORPORAL OLCHURIE KAPASEI



Jul 10, 2019 - A SAD GOODBYE TO AN UNLIKELY HERO



Jul 10, 2019 - STORIES FROM THE FRONTLINES: CONSTABLE SESEI LOORMONI



Mar 5, 2019 - MEET AGNES: A BIG LIFE RANGER



Feb 22, 2019 - MEET A BIG LIFE RANGER: JOSEPH KOTOKE



Jul 30, 2018 - THE VOICE ON THE LIFELINE



Jul 27, 2018 - NDERU – A TRUE ORIGINAL



Jul 12, 2018 - BIG LIFE’S CANINE RANGERS



Jul 5, 2018 - WHO IS THIS MAN?



Mar 8, 2018 - HONORING THE WOMEN OF BIG LIFE



Feb 1, 2018 - IN FOND MEMORY OF KIOR, UNSUNG CONSERVATION HERO



Feb 13, 2016 - RANGER OF THE MONTH: JANUARY 2016



May 19, 2015 - BIG LIFE RANGER OF THE MONTH, APRIL 2015: MOLOIMET LEGOS



Dec 6, 2014 - BIG LIFE RANGER OF THE MONTH, NOVEMBER 2014: SENIOR SERGEANT LEKINA OLEMPUMPU



Oct 2, 2014 - BIG LIFE RANGER OF THE MONTH, AUGUST: DICKSON NTAWUASA



Jul 21, 2014 - BIG LIFE RANGER OF THE MONTH JUNE 2014: SERGEANT UNGANI MPOMPOET



Jun 14, 2014 - BIG LIFE RANGERS OF THE MONTH, MAY 2014: THE COMMITTED TEAM OF MOBILE ONE



May 15, 2014 - BIG LIFE RANGER OF THE MONTH, APRIL 2014: SERGEANT NTEKEYO KATANKI



Mar 28, 2014 - RANGER OF THE MONTH MARCH 2014 : JUSTUS NZIOKI, RHINO MAN



Feb 26, 2014 - RANGER OF THE THE MONTH, FEBRUARY 2014: FRANCIS LEGEI, BIG LIFE KENYA’S COMMANDING OFFICER, CO-ORDINATOR OF POACHER PEKEI’S CAPTURE



