Mount Kenya Wildlife Conservancy has been recognized in Tripadvisor’s Travelers’ Choice Awards for 2025. Tripadvisor Travelers’ Choice Award winners are among the top 10% listings around the world on Tripadvisor.
As the world’s largest travel guidance platform, Tripadvisor has unparalleled authority with travelers and diners.
The award is based on genuine feedback from anyone in the community who has visited and left an authentic, first-hand review on Tripadvisor over a 12-month period, making it a valuable and trustworthy designation of travelers’ favorites.
Head of conservancy at MKWC Dr Robert Aruho has welcomed the recognition as a vote of confidence in the work that the conservancy has been undertaking to protect nature’s beauty for present and future generations.
“We thank our visitors and reviewers for their positive reviews of MKWC and are truly honored to be included among travelers’ favorites this year. Travelers’ Choice is one of the most recognized and coveted awards in the travel space, so it is very valuable to us,” said Dr Robert Ahuro.
“At the heart of our mission is the critically endangered Mountain Bongo whose population in the wild has drastically declined to less than 100. The Conservancy has succeeded in breeding and rewilding these critically endangered animals, restoring their habitat, and returning them to their natural home in the wild,” he added.
Over the last two decades, the Mount Kenya Wildlife Conservancy has nurtured four generations of Mountain Bongo after repatriating them from various zoos in North America to start the breeding and rewilding program.
In 2022, the Kenya Wildlife Service, Kenya Forest Service, and Mount Kenya Wildlife Conservancy established the world’s first Mountain Bongo sanctuary, the Mawingu Sanctuary, a 776-acre protected area of indigenous forest located within Mount Kenya Forest Reserve, a well-known former range of the Mountain Bongo.
Within its first year, ten Mountain Bongos were translocated into the sanctuary, and since then, four births have been recorded, providing full proof of concept that these antelope species have settled well into their new wild home.
“Congratulations to MKWC on its recognition in Tripadvisor’s Travelers’ Choice Awards for 2025,” said Tripadvisor president, Kristen Dalton.
“Ranking among the top percentage of businesses globally means you have made such a memorable impact on your visitors that many of them took the time to go online and leave a glowing review about their experience. We hope this recognition continues to drive business to you in 2025 and beyond,” concluded Dalton.
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