{"id":343200,"date":"2025-12-12T13:19:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T13:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/343200\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T13:19:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T13:19:24","slug":"is-a-luxury-hotel-in-the-maasai-mara-blocking-a-wildlife-corridor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/343200\/","title":{"rendered":"Is a luxury hotel in the Maasai Mara blocking a wildlife corridor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizen.digital\/author\/mashirima-kapombe-535\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765545562_858_\" alt=\"Mashirima Kapombe\"\/><\/a> By<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizen.digital\/author\/mashirima-kapombe-535\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n        Mashirima Kapombe<br \/>\n      <\/a><br \/>\n      Published on:  December 10, 2025 10:28 (EAT)<br \/>\n         <img decoding=\"async\" data-v-7257c9c5=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/tts-pre-loader.gif\" alt=\"Vocalize Pre-Player Loader\" style=\"all:unset!important;display:inline!important;\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-7257c9c5=\"\" style=\"font-size:13px;margin-left:20px;\">Audio By Vocalize<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">For close to five months, a controversy has been brewing in<br \/>\nthe world-famous Maasai Mara Game Park, where the construction and opening of a<br \/>\nluxury resort stirred up a storm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\nBacked by a section of the community, Joel Ololdapash, a Maasai environmental<br \/>\nactivist, petitioned against the Ritz-Carlton Masai Mara safari camp for<br \/>\nallegedly blocking a key migration corridor for wildebeest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> Citizen TV\u2019s<br \/>\nMashirima Kapombe travelled to the Maasai Mara in Narok County to establish the<br \/>\nfacts of an environmental dispute, which she now reports in our special feature<br \/>\n\u2018Sand and Storm\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Mashirima Kapombe Published on: December 10, 2025 10:28 (EAT) Audio By Vocalize For close to five months,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,190170,128,338],"class_list":["post-343200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-maasai-mara-game-park","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}