Pangolins Probable Intermediate Host Species for Coronavirus – Report
Nairobi, Feb 11 - Researchers in China have suggested that pangolins are the probable intermediate host species for the coronavirus outbreak that has thus...
One of Kenya’s Largest Elephants Dies
Nairobi, Feb 6 – One of Kenya’s iconic great elephants has died of natural causes at the age of 50, wildlife authorities said.
Nicknamed Tim,...
Move Koroga Festival out of Hell’s Gate National Park
PRESS RELEASE
Nairobi, Jan 31 - The Conservation Alliance of Kenya requests the organizers of the Naivasha Love Festival 2020 to move out of the...
Tourists Stranded as Floods Hit Kenya’s Maasai Mara
Nairobi, Jan 30 – About 10 lodges in Kenya’s Maasai Mara National Reserve, a popular tourist destination, have been hit by flooding following heavy...
Hell’s Gate Needs Tender Loving Care – Not the Love Festival
by Paula Kahumbu
Nairobi, Jan 21 - Many people are shocked, as I am, by the approval given to hold two large-scale public events in...
Kenya’s Food Security Threatened by Locust Infestation
A desert locust infestation- the worst in 25 years- is spreading through Northern Kenya after wreaking havoc in Somalia and Ethiopia, posing a significant...
Agroforestry Yields Livelihood Improvements for Farmers in Kenya
Nairobi, Jan 9 - Scientists from World Agroforestry (ICRAF) have found modest, yet statistically significant, improvements in the livelihoods of farmers involved with an...
Poaching of elephants, rhinos in Kenya in significant decline
Nairobi, Jan 3 - The poaching of iconic wildlife species in Kenya, including elephants and rhinos, has declined by 90 percent over the past...
Poachers Kill Two Southern White Rhinos in Kenya
Nairobi, Dec 10 – Poachers killed two southern male white rhinos in a wildlife sanctuary in northern Kenya last week, the conservancy said.
The privately-owned...
Kenyan Conservationist Helps Rescue Poisoned Endangered Vultures
Nairobi, Nov 19 - A hyena, two Endangered Lappet-faced Vultures, and three Critically Endangered Rüppell’s Vultures died at the scene of an illegal poisoning...
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By Curtis Abraham
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KWS broke the good news...
Kenyan Court Declines to Stop Staging of Music Festival in National Park
Nairobi, Feb 12 - A Kenyan court has declined to issue orders to stop the staging of a two-day music festival in the country’s...
Pangolins Probable Intermediate Host Species for Coronavirus – Report
Nairobi, Feb 11 - Researchers in China have suggested that pangolins are the probable intermediate host species for the coronavirus outbreak that has thus...
One of Kenya’s Largest Elephants Dies
Nairobi, Feb 6 – One of Kenya’s iconic great elephants has died of natural causes at the age of 50, wildlife authorities said.
Nicknamed Tim,...