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From his home on the Kinangop plateau, overlooking the Aberdare mountain range, James Gichia can see thin fingers of smoke rising from scattered settlements, farmers at work in their potato fields, the darker green marking stands of eucalyptus trees, and flocks of sheep grazing on open grassland. Every year there’s a little less grassland […]
Despite its being one of the smallest lakes, covering 43.3km2, it is a critical site for hundreds of hippos and more than 300 bird species, a reason for its designation as an Important Bird Area.
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A section of Maasai Mau Forest that has been cleared for the plantation of Tea by Nyayo Tea Zone. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]
Hilole Soman inspects the grass seedlings in his vast farm in Bularahma village within the Tana Delta.
The sprouting seedlings are part of an ambitious project aimed at restoring degraded grazing fields.
“Restoring degraded areas is not all about planting trees, it is about greening spaces and that is why we are embracing this project in the Delta to restore the grazing fields,” says Soman, whose village is among 20 where productive fields are being reclaimed. Dumi, Hewani, Wema and Handaraku are also among the villages earmarked for reclamation.
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