KARURA FOREST – MORE THAN JUST A PLEASANT WALK IN THE WOODS

By Harvey Croze Half past four in the morning. Normally the quietest time of day in suburban Nairobi. And there it is...

Pioneering Elephant Conservationist Dr Iain Douglas-Hamilton Dies at 83 NAIROBI, December 10, 2025 (Swara) – Dr Iain Douglas-Hamilton, the...

Satellite Tracking Helps Keep Elephants Safe from Poachers — and Away from Crops

On 10 September, on a beautiful sunny day in Amboseli National Park, I was present when Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) vets successfully attached a...

Africa Protected Areas Congress in Rwanda Postponed

KIGALI, Feb 3 - The inaugural IUCN Africa Protected Areas Congress (APAC) previously scheduled for 7-12 March 2022 has been postponed to 18-23 July...

Ol Pejeta Conservancy Offers Livelihood Support to Drought-hit Pastoralists

To cushion communities in the Laikipia County in central Kenya from the effects of an incipient drought, the Ol Pejeta Conservancy has come...

Mt Kenya National Park Showcased in Photo Exhibition

NAIROBI, Aug 4 (Swara) – Kenya’s Ministry of Tourism and Wildlife has launched a month-long photo exhibition at the headquarters of the National Museums...

Rescue Fund Created for Mara Conservancies Hit by COVID-19 Pandemic

Nairobi, Nov 25 - A new $5 million fund has been created to help wildlife conservancies that border Kenya's renowned Mara National Reserve to...

From 100 years in a jar, the blind snake leaps back to claim place...

In the final years of the 19th Century the team building the Uganda Railway moved inland from the Kenyan coast into the hard, arid...

World-renowned primatologist Jane Goodall dies at 91

Nairobi, Oct 2 (Swara) – Dr Jane Goodall, the pioneering British primatologist whose 65-year study of wild chimpanzees in Tanzania transformed the...

Gorilla Conservation through Public Health in Uganda

 By Charlotte Beauvoisin and Amy Roll In 21st century conservation circles, it is widely assumed that for conservation to be successful, human communities need...

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