Pangolins and the Chinese Connection
By Felix Patton Throughout history the Chinese have viewed pangolins as an important source of medicine and food. The meat is consumed as...
Study Warns Fencing Could Trigger Collapse of Greater Mara Ecosystem
With land privatization and fencing of thousands of hectares of communal grazing areas, East Africa is struggling with one of the most radical...
Kenya’s New Wildlife Laws: What Impact on Conservancies?
By Gladys Warigia and Brendan Buzzard When the first conservancies emerged in the 1990s it was not the result of a specific top-down policy,...
Making Africa’s Protected Area System Financially Viable
By Kathleen H. Fitzgerald Africa has an impressive network of protected areas that supports critical ecosystem services and globally significant wildlife and wild...
The Trouble with Laikipia
By Peter Hetz The second-best wildlife destination in Kenya is under siege. The very foundation of private land ownership, property rights,...
A Coal-fired Power Plant in Lamu?
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Basecamp Explorer: Ecotourism with a Difference
By John Nyaga The Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya is renowned for its varied wildlife. Conservationists often issue warnings on the creeping...
Rescued Chimps Have a Second Chance in Uganda’s Ngamba Island
By Storm Stanley Most of the 49 chimpanzees being rehabilitated on Ngamba Island in Uganda by the Chimpanzee Sanctuary and Wildlife Conservation Trust...
Ringing at Ngulia to Map Avian Migration
By Rupert Watson Soon after Ngulia Lodge opened on the edge of an escarpment in Tsavo West National Park, in 1969, ornithologists discovered...
New Study Shows World has More than 60,000 Tree Species
The number of tree species currently known to science is 60,065, representing 20 percent of all angiosperm and gymnosperm plant species, according to...
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