http://kenyaforests.wildlifedirect.org collective action to conserve forests Mon, 24 Nov 2008 07:07:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Kijabe Environment Volunteers a long time member of KFWG is one of the 25 winners of the prestigious Equator Prize for 2008. The Equator Prize is awarded biennially to recognize and celebrate outstanding community efforts to reduce poverty through the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity. The winners were selected ... http://kenyaforests.wildlifedirect.org/2008/11/24/kenvo-wins-equator-prize/ The Kenya Forest Service has approved eight forest management plans developed by communities. The plans will enable these eight communities, grouped into community forest associations, to co-manage specific areas of forest currently managed exclusively by the KFS. This type of management commonly referred to as Participatory Forest Management has been ... http://kenyaforests.wildlifedirect.org/2008/11/20/eight-community-management-plans-get-nod-from-government/ Reijo Hakanen a long time member of KFWG delighted us at the last monthly meeting on Friday with a nice gift: Orchids. Reijo, found the Orchids (pictured below), dumped at the Agricultural Society of Kenya showground on Ngong Road. Reijo thought he would bring them to this meeting where forest ... http://kenyaforests.wildlifedirect.org/2008/11/03/orchids-find-new-home/ Translocation of “predominantly females” to Chawia forest will help avert imminent local extinction of the Taita thrush population there, conservationists say I remember last year when someone remarked rather dramatically, “I hear they have a shortage of females in Taita”. Seeing the confusion on our faces he added, rather cheekily, “The ... http://kenyaforests.wildlifedirect.org/2008/10/08/translocation-of-females-to-chawia-forest-will-help-avert-imminent-local-extinction-of-the-taita-thrush-population-there-conservationists-say/ We are involved in mapping the impact of post election violence on forests in western Kenya. This is part of a project funded by the Finnish Embassy in Kenya, through the WWF East Africa Regional Programme, that is being carried out by five NGOs – WWF, KFWG, Nature Kenya, IUCN ... http://kenyaforests.wildlifedirect.org/2008/10/02/post-election-violence-impact-on-forests-in-western-kenya/ In the early nineties about 521 families who had been stopped from farming in the Kieni forest near Thika in Kenya were moved onto a plot within the forest as a temporary measure. More than a decade later the temporary settlement, with its desperate inhabitants, is still in place. ... http://kenyaforests.wildlifedirect.org/2008/09/30/kieni-forest%e2%80%99s-huruma-camp-squatters-need-attention/ That's what Kijabe Environment Volunteers have been doing! KENVO as they are more popularly known is a group of young, totally into the environment youth that works around the Kijabe escarpment, with a focus on the Kereita forest. Kereita forest is the southern most part of the Aberdare ranges of Kenya. ... http://kenyaforests.wildlifedirect.org/2008/06/10/making-conservation-just-a-little-be-more-sexy/ The East African Standard reports that East African lawyers will next week sue the Government over the destruction of the Mau They are drafting papers for a case they will file at the East Africa Court of Justice in Arusha. They have accused the Kenya Government of contravening the East African ... http://kenyaforests.wildlifedirect.org/2008/06/04/east-african-lawyers-sue-government-over-mau/ KFWG would like to show its support for government efforts to save the Mau. We hope this resolve will not wane. Read more on the developments in the Mau here and here http://kenyaforests.wildlifedirect.org/2008/05/28/more-on-the-mau/ The Government has sworn to act to save the Mau Complex forests. Prime Minister Hon. Raila Odinga who chaired a meeting over the Mau said the Government was treating the matter seriously and was determined to come up with a solution. "We are concerned about the situation in Mau and want ... http://kenyaforests.wildlifedirect.org/2008/05/27/high-profile-attention-on-the-mau-complex-forests/