What is driving Jipe Tilapia fish in Lake Jipe into near extinction?
By Janet Murikira In 2015 Nile Tilapine fingerlings were introduced on the Kenyan side of Lake Jipe The introduction of …
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Pangolins in the Dock
The pangolin is the world’s most trafficked mammal. No one truly knows its conservation status in Kenya. When COVID-19 broke out in early 2020, some medical researchers linked coronavirus to horseshoe bats. Other researchers suspected the malayan or javan pangolin to be the intermediate host of coronavirus before it jumped to human beings. But is the pangolin really guilty as charged?
Simple solutions for stubborn problems: Communities close to Kenya’s Tsavo National Park plant trees to save wildlife
Several farmers in Kenya are crying foul of wild animals destroying their food and crops. Communities around the Tsavo park have turned to tree planting as an innovation to end human-wildlife conflicts
Uganda’s Musambwa Island, the World’s Largest Breeding Colony for Grey-headed Gulls, Devastated by Floods amid Coronavirus Pandemic
Musambwa Island, the World’s Largest Breeding Colony for Grey-headed Gulls Devastated by Floods amid Coronavirus Pandemic.
Restoring Lake Nakivale; A Refugees’ Idea
Lake Nakivale in Isingiro District, Uganda is under threat due to massive pollution.
Now, refugees in Nakivale refugee camp in Isingiro district have taken the lead role in the conservation and protection of the lake, the biggest water source to the camp
Poachers’ Den Turns Wildlife Haven: the story of Ajai
A wildlife reserve is recovering from the heavy poaching of the 1970s and 80s. A community’s efforts to reduce poaching by beekeeping. Reports show a modest increase in the number of the top nine dominant animal species in the reserve: baboons, bushpigs, bushbucks, black and white colobus monkeys, vervet monkeys, Duikers, Kobs, the orbi and warthogs.
Saving the Rothschild Giraffe in Kenya
The Rothschild Giraffe, only found in Kenya and Uganda, is alarmingly decreasing in population and faces risk of extinction.
Saving Swamps in East Africa
InfoNile is marking World Water Day 2019 with 4 original multimedia stories on innovative solutions that are working to conserve wetlands in East Africa.
WASTE to WEALTH: How Kenyan farmers are bringing life back to degraded Lake Victoria swamps
Annika McGinnis A 3-year project by Ecofinder Kenya, an NGO working in the Winam Gulf wetlands around Kisumu, offered families …