Climate & Environment
How droughts, floods, ecosystem failures and conservation finance reshape what is bookable, where, and at what price across the continent. The Climate Re-routing framework tracks the increasingly material gap between marketed wildlife products and what the climate now permits operators to deliver.
Rising rivers in the Maasai Mara expose a gap in who pays for climate adaptation
In the Maasai Mara, the rivers are beginning to take the camps. The timing of the great migration is drifting as the rains grow erratic, and the Mara and Talek rivers are flooding and washing away the camps built on their banks. A peer-reviewed study records bridges destroyed and camps swept off, but almost no adaptation is happening. The reason is structural: the actors who carry the physical risk are not the actors who capture the value, so adaptation becomes nobody's job and nobody's budget.
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