Category: Conservation

A new 45 KM Tsavo fence which is part of a KES 42 million Mackinnon Road Community Environment Management project could solve human-wildlife conflict in the area.

Thousands of old trees at the Shimba Hills National Reserve will now be harvested after a long disagreement between KWS and the Kenya Forest Service was recently resolved.

Kenya requires KES 7.6 billion annually to purchase 384 million seedlings in order to meet United Nations’ 10% forest cover requirement by the year 2030. The country currently is at 2% cover.

NEMA has issued a directive to the Lands Ministry to revoke all allocations of riparian land next to water bodies within 3 months. This directive takes effect immediately.

Kenya will be celebrating its first World Forest Day on Monday, March 21, 2011 with the rest of the world. The celebrations will take place at the Karura Resource Centre.

Ho Chi Minh was formerly known as Saigon, its name prior to 1975, and many people still know it by this more evocative name

Results from the just-concluded aerial census show that elephant population rises in the Tsavo-Mkomazi ecosystem from 11,696 to 12,572.

Over-cultivation of mostly tomatoes, onions and vegetables and excessive water extraction from the Kimana Wetlands cause a rise in human-wildlife conflicts.

KWS kicked-off what has become the largest elephant translocation in one operation in eastern, western and Central Africa.