The development of sufficient, well-placed and
well-maintained game viewing circuits in the MMNR High Use Zone is
perhaps the most important strategy for improving the overall
quality of the visitor experience in these areas. The development
of such circuits is also vital for enhancing the dispersal of
visitors throughout the HUZ, and reducing both vehicle congestion
and the incentive for tourism vehicles to go off road. As a first
step towards improving game viewing circuits in the High Use Zone,
MMNR management will build on and enhance current efforts to
rationalise the game viewing track network in key areas by clearly
demarcating approved tracks, signposting existing circuits, and
closing any inappropriate unofficial tracks that may have
developed. In conjunction with this, the existing Masai Mara Draft
Game Viewing Track Plan (1980) will be reviewed, and any
appropriate recommendations that have not been implemented brought
forward and incorporated in a new and updated MMNR Road Development
Plan. Once the updated plan has been prepared, and development
priorities identified, detailed budgets and plans of works will
then be developed for each new road development in line with the
roads plan’s recommendations. This action will be implemented
together with Action 4.3 of the Protected Area Operations
Programme, which addresses the same issue.
