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The Kenyan government wants to build a 32-mile tarmac road through the UNESCO World Heritage Site to connect two counties, and the countrys environmental agency, the National Environment Management Authority, issued an environmental impact assessment license for the project last month.

Residents are optimistic the project could improve their lives. But scientists and conservationists fear irreparable damage to the ecosystem.

Environment News: In a dense layer of green thousands of feet above sea level, cedar, podo and hegeina trees pattern the landscape, thick moss hanging from their branch.

Following pressure from Kenyas president, the national environment authority has issued a license for the construction of a tarmac road through the forested Aberdare range, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Carbon credits explain the hyper-financialization of climate policy.

With 50 million inhabitants, Kenya is home to a rich cultural and linguistic diversity. So, what is the official language of Kenya?

Grazing and devouring are not just the preserve of the animals on a safari — it’s thought that the average person will gain 5kg in weight on one of these trips,

It has so far planted approximately 200,000 trees not just in the Aberdare Range.

Gunnar Andreas Holm is the Norwegian Ambassador to Kenya, but also to Somalia and Seychelles, a man with many balls in the air.

Kenya is a country of contradictions, and this article has my anger shooting off the roof. How can we be talking of hunger and drought