This document presents the findings of a modelling study that examined in detail the costs and benefits of tuberculosis (TB) screening plus TB preventive treatment (TPT) in four countries – Brazil, Georgia, Kenya and South Africa – which may serve as examples for other settings with a similar epidemiological context. …
OTULA OWUOR THE Mostly Somali nomadic community in Garissa, the capital of the North Eastern province of Kenya, recently took the Kenya Wildlife Services (Kws) to court in an effort to stop it from translocating the endangered hirola antelope, also called the Hunter's harte-beest, from the region to a new …
The contentious issues of governance of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) was resolved at the resumed 19th session of the Governing Council which ended in the UNEP headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya, on April 4. Delegates agreed to set up a high-level committee of ministers and officials in charge of environment …
mike bugara, a villager of Mount Kenya in Kenya, has been an ardent conser-vationist. Inspired by the papyrus of the ancient Egyptians who made paper from leaves of maize, banana and eucalyptus trees, Bugara opted for an indigenous material: elephant dung! He boiled pot-fulls of elephant dung in his yard …
Northern Kenya is again facing the onslaught of droughts, having received scant rain in the last two years. The tell-tale signs are growing malnutrition, rising grain prices and falling cattle prices. The government of Kenya has been too slow to acknowledge the crisis. Only recently did it ask for help …
Many African economies thrive on tourism that centres on wildlife safaris. Every year, the Masai Mara national park in Kenya is visited by nearly 250,000 people to witness the mass migration of wildlife from Serengeti in Tanzania. But there is a flip side to it. According to Richard Kock, the …
A series of elephant killings has exposed the lack of adequate measures for protecting wildlife at the Amboseli National Park which borders Tanzania. The latest victim was discovered less than 1.6 km inside Tanzania on August 14, even as the Kenya Wildlife Services held a celebration to mark its 50th …
kenya, a country which is a tenth of India's size, has approximately the same number of elephants as the latter (around 25,000). Kenya's elephants are housed in 20 per cent of its own land area of which only five per cent is protected. Kenyan elephant population dropped from 167,000 in …
A company in Kenya is putting old rubber tyres to good use. The use of locally reclaimed rubber is fast catching on in the country. Recycled rubber has not only helped improve environment but also created new job opportunities and reduced imports. The material is reclaimed mainly from abandoned old …
Participants from five Commonwealth countries met in Nairobi recently to undergo training in environmental impact assessment in project planning and management. Kenya showed them a model of development sans pollution: a hi-tech geothermal power plant, the first of its kind in Africa, lies 120 km from Nairobi near Lake Naivasha, …
Kenya and Sri Lanka are an ocean apart. But they are also wide apart from each other in their strategies for wildlife conservation. While the former is moving towards involving the community, the latter remains stuck in anti-people conservationist strategies. In order to protect the world's biodiversity, the Sri Lankan …
Scientists from the British Natural Resources Institute and the Kenyan Agricultural Research Institute working at Kenya's Rift valley suggest that volcanic carbon dioxide, instead of methyl bromide, could be used to exterminate granary pests (New Scientist, Vol 148, No 2004). Experiments have been conducted on more than 2,000 tonnes of …
A major programme of beekeeping and sericulture has been launched by the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE) in Kenya. The project, it hopes, will alleviate rural poverty through small-scale incomegenerating enterprises. They will market honey, silk and wax to cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries. For the first time …
CONSIDERED one of the world's top palaeontologists, conservationists and lately a politician, Richard Leakey has always been in the centre of controversies in Kenya. It is his recent foray into politics after a stormy period as head of the Kenya Wildlife Services (KWS), that has shocked many and currently invited …
The cargo ship mv-emb-t Emerald recently left Kenya's port of Mombasa loaded with 100,000 kilograms of radioactive milk powder. The potentially lethal commodity was being returned to Rotterdam, Netherlands, its port of origin. Top officials from Kenya's Radiation Protection Board under its health ministry of health, said that the country …
A recent slogan which appeared in a leading newspaper in the Netherlands went like this: Buy flowers from Kenya. In a land known for its hegemony in cut flowers, the statement raised quite a few eyebrows. Made by Inzet, a local ngo, the slogan has made known a trend which …
The Masais of Loita, semi-nomadic tribals who are jealously guarding one of the few remaining indigenous forests in East Africa, are in a state of despair. The Kenyan government's recent decision to turn their homeground into a reserve for the development of mass tourism has unnerved the entire community. In …
THE South can now begin challenging the stereotypes about itself that had been sold so enticingly till now. The Environmental Liaison Centre International (ELCI), in Nairobi has launched a project to assist Kenyan non-governmental organisations to gain access to electronic communication. For every 1,000 words sent out by the North, …
NGOS in Kenya are bewildered. In the beginning of March they were enthusiastic: the Tana and Athi River Development Authority (TARDA) and the sponsors, the Japan International Development Agency (JICA), had invitated them to a workshop to discuss the pros and cons of the upcoming hydroelectric power project over River …
RICHARD Leakey, director of the Kenya Wildlife Services (KWS), resigned again on March 24. Leakey had earlier stepped down from office in January this year, responding to a campaign spearheaded by the minister for local government, William Ole Ntimama and the minister for tourism and wildlife, Noah Katana Ngala, who …
