Mukogodo gazetted forest reserve is one of the remaining indigenous forests in Kenya. It is among the largest in East Africa covering an area of 30,189 hectares with a rich biodiversity consisting of over 210 species of birds and roughly 100 species of butterfly. The forest has over the years been managed jointly by ILMAMUSI…
Covid-19 has hit Laikipia and the Maasai Mara hard and tourism has dwindled, but a loan programme will help conservancies, communities and wildlife. In a new arrangement, Conservation International, in partnership with the Maasai Mara Wildlife Conservancies Association, will issue loans to the Mara conservancies. Mara conservancies have been facing massive financial losses caused by…
On November 24, 1920, the Governor of the Colony of Kenya declared Nanyuki a Township drawing the powers from the East Africa Township Ordinance of 1903. This declaration read. “In the exercise of the powers conferred upon me, I, the Governor of the Colony of Kenya and East Africa Protectorate, hereby declare the area described in…