We must protect our forests
Source: Daily Nation
Nairobi :: Kenya | updated 2013-04-11 17:26:44 -0700 | green-news
A small forest at the Coast often under threat of human encroachment has turned out to host out one of the world's rarest bird nesting sites. Bird watching may be some esoteric and puzzling activity to many Kenyans, but it...
Ruto meets permanent secretaries over floods havoc
Source: Daily Nation
Nairobi :: Kenya | updated 2013-04-10 17:17:43 -0700 | green-news
Rating In Summary In a message delivered on his behalf by Information Permanent Secretary Dr. Bitange Ndemo after the meeting, Mr. Ruto said that the floods which continue to wreck havoc in many parts of the country required urgent measures...
32 dead, over 18,000 displaced in Kenya floods
Source: Zee News
Nairobi :: Kenya | updated 2013-04-10 10:38:54 -0700 | green-news
Several parts of the country especially the coast and Western Kenya regions have been affected by flooding, following an increased heavy downpour countrywide," Xinhua cited the agency as saying in a statement. The government has advised people living in flood-prone...
Africa: Wild Foods Could Improve Nutrition and Food Security
Source: All Africa
Nairobi :: Kenya | updated 2013-04-10 09:11:02 -0700 | green-news
Making these foods accessible would mean bringing them to markets to benefit the urban poor, many of whom find imported fruits and processed foods unaffordable, and giving people legal access to forests to obtain bio-resources like game meat and honey...
The trouble with Nairobi's property hot spots
Source: Daily Nation
Nairobi :: Kenya | updated 2013-04-10 09:07:26 -0700 | green-news
Rating In Summary So you are in a rush to buy land in what would be your next home. The deal, from the way that land is being advertised, could not get any better...When Tilda Meja and her husband bought...
NCPB told to speed up Sh400m farmers pay
Source: Daily Nation
Nairobi :: Kenya | updated 2013-04-10 08:36:40 -0700 | green-news
Rating In Summary Two weeks ago Deputy President William Ruto promised farmers that sh1.2billion had been released by the government to buy fertiliser as well as pay farmers. Sh400million it owes farmers who delivered maize since last year. Kenya Farmers...
Villagers count losses as floods destroy crops
Source: Daily Nation
Nairobi :: Kenya | updated 2013-04-09 14:05:06 -0700 | green-news
More than 10,000 hectares of crops were washed away in Tana Delta District as floods continued to wreak havoc in the Tana River County. Mwina location in Tarasaa Division was the most affected area, with hundreds of acres of green...
Squatters troop back to forest after dispute
Source: Daily Nation
Nairobi :: Kenya | updated 2013-04-08 12:34:23 -0700 | green-news
Hundreds of reclaimed hectares of public land have been destroyed by squatters in Embobut forest in the past one week. Those evicted from the forest in Elgeyo Marakwet County, went back at the weekend and cleared several acres of vegetation...
Kenya Power signs 140 MW power deal with AGIL
Source: The Economic Times
Nairobi :: Kenya | updated 2013-04-08 10:26:10 -0700 | green-news
Demand for electricity from firms and homes outstrips Kenya's installed generation capacity, which frequently leads to blackouts that disrupt businesses and forces them to spend extra funds to install and run generators...The country has the potential to produce an estimated...
Bio-farms help rural farmers cope with climate change
Source: Daily Nation
Nairobi :: Kenya | updated 2013-04-08 05:29:30 -0700 | green-news
Rating In Summary Rapid population growth, change in land use practices and urbanization have worsened deforestation in the Mount Kenya region. The District Agricultural Officer, Tigania West, Abraham Miaka, noted that declining forest cover threatens food production in the larger...
Murang'a: Girl 5, dies as house collapses under heavy rains
Source: Daily Nation
Nairobi :: Kenya | updated 2013-04-08 03:40:57 -0700 | green-news
Rating In Summary He said the collapsing of the house was caused by the heavy rains which soaked the mud walls weakening them. A five year old girl died when the house she was sleeping in collapsed during heavy rains...
Thika superhighway becomes model road in rainy season
Source: Daily Nation
Nairobi :: Kenya | updated 2013-04-08 12:35:09 -0700 | green-news
Rating In Summary When it rains, some motorists, especially those going on the east of Nairobi prefer to use Thika Road to avoid traffic jam along Jogoo Road. Once again, it is long rains season in Kenya and as usual...
WFP resumes operations at Lokichokkio base
Source: Sudan Tribune
Nairobi :: Kenya | updated 2013-04-07 21:15:48 -0700 | green-news
The UN'S World Food Programme (WFP) on Wednesday said it had resumed food deliveries to south Sudan from its main air base at Lokichokkio in northwestern Kenya, after eight weeks of disruption caused by heavy floods. In a statement, the...
Man-made paths ‘hurting wildlife'
Source: Daily Nation
Nairobi :: Kenya | updated 2013-04-07 13:29:20 -0700 | green-news
Rating In Summary The Laikipia Wildlife Forum has also expressed similar sentiments over the establishment of settlements in forests known to be breeding grounds for elephants, especially in Marmanet and Mochongoi forest. Conservationists have warned that the alienation of wildlife...
Tourists stranded due to floods
Source: Daily Nation
Nairobi :: Kenya | updated 2013-04-07 13:29:16 -0700 | green-news
Rating In Summary Narok Wildlife Forum coordinator Nicholas ole Morero urged the government to repair the Ngoswani bridge urgently to ease transport in the area. Hundreds of tourists visiting the Maasai Mara Game Reserve were on Saturday stranded for more...
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