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With Droughts, Migration becomes urgent in the Horn of Africa.
In the Horn of Africa, pastoralists have often moved. The movement is a crucial driver for community resilience. However, the slow onset of events like droughts, desertification, water scarcity,...
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Human Greed: The Silent Destroyer of Nature’s Fragile Balance
Humanly speaking, forests, minerals, oceans, water bodies, and other natural resources are seen as infinite by the human eye. Infinite in the sense that there are more resources to be mined or prospected for, more land to be utilized, a vast ocean and waterbodies...
Why planting mangroves is not the solution.
Mangroves are versatile and flexible forests that can cope with enormous disturbances. Dr. Judith Okello, a senior research scientist and mangrove ecologist at the Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute, says that when sedimentation occurs, the mangroves can form a new cable rooting system...
Empowering Women, Revitalizing Mangroves: A Story from Kenya
Munje, Mswambeni Kenya, In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, 15 women came together to preserve a portion of mangrove forest along the Vanga-Funzi Bay section on the southern coast of Kenya. Four years later, the Tunusuru Conservation Women’s Group has grown into a 30-member...
Meet a Kenyan community saving the coral reefs.
Along the Pate-Kiunga area in Lamu County, a small archipelago north of Mombasa in Kenya, Coral reefs have degraded over the years. in Pate Island, the largest island in the Lamu Archipelago, lies between the towns of Lamu and Kiunga, More than 3, 000...
Spring water changing lives in Kenya.
Women in Olailamutia, a town in Kenya’s Narok County, have had problems with diarrhoea, stomachaches, and skin rashes for many years. Having access to clean drinking water from a spring is helping to get rid of these problems. Families here got water to drink...
Cabins made of plastic helping keep Kenya’s Masai Mara clean.
In today’s episode, we meet Isaac Macharia, a Kenyan social entrepreneur with Marafiki Community International who makes cabins out of plastic to keep Kenya’s Masai Mara clean. In 2015, Macharia was on his usual tour-guiding routine at the Masai Mara in Kenya. It bothered...
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Human Greed: The Silent Destroyer of Nature’s Fragile Balance