The Lake Natron and Monduli concessions are also unique in an anti-poaching sense in that they are located on village land. One student can be sponsored to attend one year of secondary school for $265. A secondary education will open up a host of income generating opportunities for a student and enable them to escape dependence on illegal natural resource use. In Tanzania only 3% of secondary school aged girls and 4% of boys are enrolled in secondary education. In the past these funds have gone towards rehabilitating water sources, funding secondary school education for indigent students and constructing primary and secondary schools. Each year the villages receive a detailed description of the community funds generated through hunting and photographic safaris that year and they decide how these funds should be allocated to best serve the village interests. FCF works closely with the villages to educate them about the benefits of sustainable wildlife and natural resource use. This situation creates an extremely close relationship between the communities and the wildlife resources. The Lake Natron and Monduli concessions are unique from the community perspective in that both are located on village land, rather than on game reserves (from which human settlement is prohibited).
Mount Gelai and Monduli Mountain are both covered by dense montane forest, while Lake Natron, a soda lake at the foot of Mount Lengai, the holy mountain of the Masai, attracts an abundance of bird life with thousands of flamingos. Both areas are dispersed with flat-topped acacia trees, broken every few miles by mountains, hills and scenic sand rivers, which are visited by elephants, giraffe and cheetah. Situated to the south of this area is Monduli Open Area, marked by Monduli Mountains with its Forest Reserve and the plains below extending into the Rift Valley. Located in the Masai Steppe, Lake Natron Game Controlled Area abuts onto the Kenya border.
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