Kenya’s Wildlife Census Records 12 Per Cent Growth in Elephant Population
Nairobi, September 1 – Kenya’s elephant population rose by 12 per cent from 32,214 in 2014 to 36,169 animals in 2021, according to newly...
Kenya Airways and USAID’s ROUTES Campaign Partner to Protect Wildlife
Nairobi, Aug 16 - Kenya Airways (KQ) and the USAID-led Reducing Opportunities for Unlawful Transport of Endangered Species (ROUTES) partnership have come together to create awareness...
UN Report on Climate Change Spells Out Humanity’s Damage to the Planet
Nairobi, Aug 10 – The United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a group of scientists whose findings are endorsed by the world's...
Astounding Progress: Kampala’s Plan for Trees
By Story and photos by Cathy Watson
Thirty years ago, Kampala was a town of half a million people on seven green hills. Today it...
Conservationist Joannah Stutchbury Murdered in Kenya
Nairobi, July 16 – Unknown assailants shot and killed environment activist Joannah Stutchbury, 67, outside her home near the Windsor Country Club in the...
KWS, FoNNaP and Youth Unite to Remove Invasive Weed from Nairobi National Park
By Dr. Elizabeth Migongo-Bake, Chair, FoNNAP’s Habitat & Wildlife Committee
Nairobi, July 14 – The Nairobi National Park and the neighouring private wildlife sanctuaries...
Human-Wildlife Conflict a Main Threat to Survival of Species – Report
Nairobi, July 9 - Conflict between people and animals, from China’s famed wandering elephants raiding farms for food and water to wolves preying on...
New Study Finds Elephants Show Risk-Avoidance Behaviour
Nairobi, June 30 - Elephants’ heavy footsteps and their rumbling low-frequency calls are so powerful that they can create seismic waves -- vibrations that...
Restoring Nature along a Main Road in Nairobi
From bare earth to grass and trees, and then the frogs showed up
Story and photos by Cathy Watson
Nairobi’s new Waiyaki Way-Red Hill Link Road...
UN Urges Countries to Commit to Restore Billion Hectares of Degraded Land
NAIROBI, June 4 - Facing the triple threat of climate change, loss of nature, and pollution, the world must deliver on its commitment to...
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