BY Kenya Geographic
KWS, effective 1st July, 2011, will discontinue the SmartCard as a payment mode to national parks and reserves in Kenya in favour of the new Safari Card.
BY Kenya Geographic
The 4th Lake Turkana Festival is around the corner. The festival will be celebrating cultures of the El Molo, Samburu, Gabbra, Rendile, Watta, Dasannach, Pokot and the Turkana.
BY Kenya Geographic
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.
BY Kenya Geographic
The new Kimana gate is expected to improve access to Amboseli National Park. It will have an information centre and visitor waiting lounge among other facilities.
BY Kenya Geographic
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.
BY Kenya Geographic
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.
BY Kenya Geographic
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.
BY Kenya Geographic
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.
BY Kenya Geographic
Ho Chi Minh was formerly known as Saigon, its name prior to 1975, and many people still know it by this more evocative name
