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.
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WASTE to WEALTH: How Kenyan farmers are bringing life back to degraded Lake Victoria swamps
A 3-year project by Ecofinder Kenya, an NGO working in the Winam Gulf wetlands around Kisumu, offered families living in …
Decades of wise use pay off for a Kabale wetland
Community ownership agreement in Mugandu-Buramba wetland has kept the wetland intact for 40 years while helping farmers gain livelihoods Story …
Rwanda: Government eviction of developers from wetlands pays off, but more left to do
This story was supported by a grant from InfoNile and Code for Africa. By Leonce Muvuni The Rwandan government is …
Mara wetland: Birds sing in their habitat: How Birdlife’s conservation efforts make birds and humans coexist in Mara region
By Elias Hakizimana It was a tough experience for birds in Tanzania’s Mara Wetland when local communities would throw stones …