The program was started to address the lack of after-care, a major flaw in many forest-planting projects in Kenya and beyond.
Adopt-a-Forest climate project in Kenya pays locals to keep trees alive until they mature Read more
In 2005, residents of the area took the unprecedented step of setting aside a 30-hectare Marine Protected Area (MPA). Seventeen years on, the area has made a remarkable recovery.
Kenya’s Kuruwitu corals make remarkable recovery, thanks to local conservation drive Read more
Launched two years ago, this first-of-its-kind initiative, known as Mikoko Pamoja (‘Mangroves Together’), raises money for its mangrove conservation by selling carbon credits to people and organizations eager to shrink their carbon footprint.
Nzambi Matee’s Nairobi-based company, Gjenge Makers, produces a variety of different paving stones, which are already being put to use to line sidewalks, driveways, and roads.
Kenyan engineer invents method to turn plastic waste into sturdy construction bricks Read more
The African Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights has ruled that the Kenyan government must pay reparations for repeatedly evicting Indigenous Ogiek people from ancestral lands in the Mau Forest.
The Flipflopi team intends to set up a Material Recovery Center for plastics, which will be the first of its kind in the Lamu archipelago and will serve over 140,000 people.
The crucial resolution will help develop a better understanding of the relationship between improving animal welfare and tackling the drivers of wildlife loss, climate change, pollution and pandemic diseases.
The measure calls for an international negotiating committee to set the terms of a treaty on plastic pollution by the end of 2024.
U.N. adopts landmark resolution that aims to end plastic pollution Read more
Only around 5-8% of the marine area in the Indian Ocean is under some form of legal protection, a far cry from the goal of protecting 30% of Earth’s land and oceans by 2030.
After the successful completion of a pilot program in Kenya, Opibus and Uber have announced a strategic partnership to scale the use of electric motorcycles in Africa.
Uber and Opibus partner to deploy up to 3,000 electric motorcycles in Kenya by end of 2022 Read more
