All of us at Kenya Treks had a good holiday season over the last few months with guests from the UK and Canada climbing with us. Our guests ranged in age from 13 to 72 and I’m glad to say that everyone made it to Point Lenana. Over the years mountain hiking has gained wider…
Implementing Partners of the Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASAL) Restoration Initiative project last month met in Nanyuki to review previous year’s activity implementation and milestones achieved. The meeting also focused on the alignment of project activities to avoid duplication of efforts, identifying bottlenecks, suggesting solutions and planning for the next year of implementation while adopting…
ILMAMUSI Community Forest Association is in full gear preparing for the inaugural Walk Wild experience, slated to take place on the 19th of November this year. The event entails a 10 km walk inside the forest accompanied by ILMAMUSI CFA rangers, and guests will experience walking in the wild and help to plant 1,000 indigenous…
International Primate Day, September 1, is an annual event and has been organized since 2005 with the support of the British-based, Animal Defenders International (ADI). It is supported internationally and locally on an annual basis by various primate-focused advocacy organizations. The primates organizations speaks for all higher and lower primates, typically endorsing humane agendas where primates…
We take this opportunity to congratulate Kenya Wildlife Conservancies Association for emerging as the best Conservation Supporter at this years African Conservation Awards ceremony held in Kasane, Botswana. The Awards were established to promote conservation and to recognize the efforts made by countries in safeguarding natural heritage by empowering rangers in conservancies. Simba Community Wildlife…
Laikipia Forum in partnership with ILMAMUSI Community Forest Association and conservation partners in the past weeks engaged with community representatives of Mayianat, Kuri Kuri , Il Ngwesi and Lekuruki Conservancies to deliberate and establish key project activities that will be implemented under the FAO Forest Restoration Initiative program. These strategic meetings took place at the…
Goal 1: No Poverty Emu Sacco contributes to SDG1 by building the resilience of the small holder farmers and those in vulnerable situations through reducing their exposure and vulnerability to climate-related extreme events such as prolonged droughts by financing infrastructures for water harvesting, storage and efficient use. The Sacco advocates for a paradigm shift from…
Basic healthcare is not readily accessible to many of our community neighbours in Laikipia. Services that so many of us take for granted on a daily basis such as immunizations, family planning and access to medical treatments are almost unheard of in many remote areas. Conservancies like Mugie are doing their part to address those…
The Mount Kenya Ewaso Water partnership and Kenya Water and Sanitation Civil Society Network begin implementation of the Water Governance Support Programme II in the greater Laikipia region this week. KEWASNET, through MKEWP, with the support of Laikipia Forum, support the establishment of sustainable wash forums on Water and Sanitation challenges in the upper Ewaso…
Resource competition, climate change and politics can be considered as the primary catalysts to the menace that is cattle rustling, not only in Kenya but in East Africa at large. In Laikipia for instance, these particular issues have taken center stage time and time again. With the lack of rains within the landscape, herders from…