The Lewa Wildlife Conservancy is a 62,000-acre wildlife sanctuary situated on the northern slopes of Mt Kenya. It consists of five extremely diverse ecosystems: Open savannah, Acacia forest, rocky gorges and ravines, Mountain forest and, our backbone, the Lewa swamp. This all supports over 440 species of birds and more than 61 different mammals, including some rather rare exotic and endangered ones.

Lewa now holds 34 black and 33 white rhino. It is one of the last three remaining habitats of the aquatic sitatunga. Lewa also boasts an ever-increasing population of reticulated Giraffe, 25 % of the worlds remaining Grevy’s zebra population and Lewa also hosts a pack of elusive wild dogs.

Founded by Alex Douglas in the 1920s, Lewa was run as a cattle ranch until the early 1990’s.