A new short film from Big Life explores what community-led conservation has made possible, and what it will take to protect the Greater Amboseli Ecosystem for generations to come.

For decades, Big Life has worked alongside local Maasai communities to protect one of the world’s most extraordinary landscapes.

Spanning nearly two million acres in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro, the Greater Amboseli Ecosystem is home to some of East Africa’s most iconic wildlife, including one of the continent’s most important elephant populations and some of its last great tuskers. It is also a living landscape, shared by wildlife and the communities who have called it home for generations.

Our new five-minute film, Amboseli Forever, tells the story of this place, the people working to protect it, and what decades of partnership have made possible.

Today, more than 600 Big Life rangers, field staff, nurses, educators, and local experts work collaboratively across the ecosystem. Together with local communities and conservation partners, they have helped drastically reduce poaching and human-wildlife conflict, expanded access to education and healthcare, and built a powerful community-led network of nature protection.

But the future of Amboseli depends on more than protecting individual animals.

As pressures on this landscape grow, securing and connecting habitat is increasingly critical. Elephants and other wildlife need room to move. Communities need healthy rangelands that can continue to support people and livestock. And the connections between Amboseli’s protected areas must remain open if this ecosystem is to continue functioning as it has for generations.

Amboseli Forever is both a celebration of what has been achieved and a reminder of what is at stake.

The film was created with acclaimed wildlife cinematographer Toby Strong, a 2026 Emmy Award winner for cinematography, whose extraordinary imagery captures the scale, beauty, and life of Amboseli.

We hope you’ll take five minutes to watch and then share Amboseli Forever with someone who should know this remarkable place and the people working to protect its future.

Conservation succeeds when communities lead.