Lumo Community Wildlife Sanctuary

Lumo Community Wildlife Sanctuary is a community-owned wildlife sanctuary in Kenya, located near Mwatate in Taita-Taveta County near the Coast, approximately 220km from Mombasa. It covers an area of 48,000 acres. Lumo Community Wildlife Sanctuary is adjacent to Tsavo West National Park and the Taita Hills Wildlife Sanctuary. It hosts lots of wildlife including the Cape buffalo, elephant, leopard, lion, Maasai giraffe, common zebra, hartebeest, impala, waterbuck, Thomson’s gazelle, lesser kudu, dik-dik, and other smaller animals, including a great variety of birdlife. The conservancy is a vital migration corridor between Tsavo East and West, and a link to Taita Ranches and Mkomazi Game Reserve in Tanzania

The sanctuary has one community-owned tourist lodge, the Lion’s Bluff Lodge. The land is mainly rolling savannah and breathtaking views from Lion’s Bluff Lodge stretch all the way to Pare mountains in Tanzania as well Africa’s highest mountain, Mt Kilimanjaro. The neighbouring Taita Community also benefits from the conservancy through bursaries, health care, improvement of infrastructure and education. It is accessible by air through Lion’s Bluff private airstrip.