SAMBURU NATIONAL RESERVE

This reserve together with its adjoining counterparts (Shaba  and Buffalo Spring Game Reserves), is within the lands of the Samburu tribe, a Maa-speaking pastoralist and nomadic people closely related to the Maasai. This arid reserve with an eco-system traversed with the grand Uaso Ngiro River and lying on the northern half of Kenya is rich with wildlife and birds, with rare species endemic to the arid north such as the Grevy’s zebra, reticulated giraffe, long-necked gerenuk (giraffe antelope), the scimitar-shape horned Beisa oryx and the blue-shanked Somali ostrich. Others include lion, cheetah, the occasional leopard, elephant, buffalo and hippo among others