Rangers and visitors stand at the Talek gate in the Maasai Mara game reserve, in Narok county, Kenya August 7, 2025. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya
MAASAI MARA NATIONAL RESERVE, Kenya (Reuters) -When Ritz-Carlton opens its first safari lodge on Friday in Kenya's Maasai Mara reserve, guests will pay nightly rates starting from $3,500 per person for tented suites with private decks overlooking a river crossed by migrating wildebeest.
But the director of a Maasai conservation institute and researchers say the true cost of those sublime views will run much higher by damaging one of the world's most renowned ecosystems.
