Wow!: How ‘adopting’ trees helps boost forests and incomes in Kenya
GEOFFREY KAMADI, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports that the carbon-curbing scheme goes beyond traditional planting projects by getting sponsors to pay to keep trees alive until they mature…
Wow!: Loans keep women afloat as they plant fast-vanishing mangroves in Kenya
DOMINIC KIRUI, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from Pate Island off Kenya’s east coast…
Forest protection: Armed with phones and seeds, jobless Kenyans tackle illegal logging
KAGONDU NJAGI, writing for Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on efforts to stem deforestation in Kwale County, Kenya, during the coronavirus pandemic…
Kenya’s forest communities face eviction from ancestral lands – even during pandemic
Nairobi, KenyaThomson Reuters Foundation Forest-dwelling communities in Kenya are being forcibly evicted from their ancestral lands, as temperatures plummet and coronavirus cases soar, land rights campaigners said on Thursday. The Community Land Action Now, a network of more than 130 Indigenous community groups, said the evictions by the Kenya Forest Service had left hundreds of […]
As fuel prices rise, firewood rustlers vex rural Kenya
Muiru, KenyaThomson Reuters Foundation Lucy Muthoni has never liked dogs. But these days, a pair of mean-looking hounds tail her as she makes the rounds at her farm in central Kenya. The reason for her shift in attitude is an unusual crime wave sweeping through villages in rural Kenya: firewood theft. Eric Mutwiri, a resident […]