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Since 2021, I have walked a mile with a family from Gitugi village in Murang’a county who were impacted by a landslide in 2018.
The long term mental health impacts that results from these disasters takes a big toll not just on the psycho-social aspect but the general well being of those left after the tragedy.
Today, as Mai-Mahiu was hit so was Kiganjo in Mathioya close to Gitugi. The risk of more landslides is very prevalent with the amount of rainfall Kenya has received.
As the World celebrate the , we pay special attention to the ecosystems. In Kwale County, south of Mombasa Kenya, a bridge construction opening up Funzi Island to the mainland cut off a section of Mangroves forests leading to and extensive diebacks. This has also impacted community efforts to restore the previously degraded mangrove forest areas along the Vanga-Funzi complex.
Infrastructure development is among major threat threatening mangroves in Kenya.
Please watch the full documentary on Youtube
👉 https://youtu.be/s3_AxPXCCZI
In 2020, during the COVID-19 epidemic, a group of fifteen women joined together to protect a stretch of Mangrove forest on the southern coast of Kenya's Vanga-Funzi Bay. With the addition of youth and children's conservation wings, the Tunusuru Conservation Women's Group has grown to a robust 30 members. The women had successfully propagated around 400,000 propagules by the end of 2023.
To find out how they are making a living, what motivated them, and how they are propagating these mangroves, please check out Africa Climate Conversations on all podcast channels or our website Link below https://africaclimateconversations.com/podcast/empowering-women-revitalizing-mangroves-a-story-from-kenya/
Journalism! The fuel that drives me. Sometimes I wonder what else I would be doing if not telling stories. Africa! the continent I call home.
Hasan Mohamed Sani, a deputy warden at the Pate Marine Community Conservancy (PMCC) and a community coral restoration expert is talking about how in 2021 communities from three villages—Pate, Shanga Ishakani, and Shanga Rubu (in Lamu County) came together, formed a locally managed marine area, segregated the area, restricted fishing, and built artificial blocks that mimicked the natural environment and started transplanting corals onto them.
They partnered with Northern Rangelands Trust Coast The Nature Conservancy Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute as well as the Lamu county fisheries department among other partners.
To understand more on their journey, successes, challenges and inspiring the Kiunga Community, please listen to our latest podcast episode here 👇
https://africaclimateconversations.com/.../meet-a-kenyan.../
More than 3, 000 people in 600 households along the Pate-Kiunga area in Lamu County directly or indirectly depend on through artisanal fisheries and tourism. But with over years Coral reef degradation, the fish started disappearing impacting their livelihoods.
But in 2021, the communities together with the Northern Rangelands Trust The Nature Conservancy Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute Kenya Wildlife Service Kenya Forest Service and the Lamu County Government fisheries department came together, build artificial blocks that mimic the natural coral environment and started transplanting corals on them.
How has this artificial coral reef restoration project helped replenish fish along the Pate-Kiunga area? and how is it impacting these community livelihoods.
Learn more 👇
Meet communities at the Pate-Kiunga in Kenya's Lamu County have come together to revive the degraded coral reefs allowing fish to replenish.
This Tuesday, come with me to Pate Island in , the largest island in the Lamu Archipelago, lying between the towns of Lamu and Kiunga. Communities here depend on fishing. However, fishery productivity depends on healthy . The corals in the Lamu-Kiunga area have degraded over the years. How did it impact these communities’ livelihoods? What degraded these corals? What are these communities doing about it?
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These local women are contracted to collect and fill these used to build eco-cabins with either sand or paper.
Would you stay in a cabin made of plastics?
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Cabins made of plastics bottles at the Masai mara
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Meet Isaack Mwangi, of Marafiki Community International. In 2015, while tour-guiding at Kenya's iconic he spotted lions playing with a plastic bot...
Without cold chains at the village level the fish is salted and sun dried on these raised racks. The fish retains its quality, stays longer and fetches them better pay.
UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell speaking at the United Nations on the impact of climate change and food insecurity on the maintenance of international peace and security:
: Women in Olailamutia, a town in Kenya's Narok County, have had problems with diarrhoea, stomachaches, and skin rashes for many years. Families here got water to drink from a river where they also took baths.
Having access to clean drinking water from a spring is helping to get rid of these problems.
The river in question has been contaminated due to chemical use, upstream intensive irrigation, and the discharge of untreated sewage into which they bathed their children.
Listen to how in addition, access to water is helping grow food water is helping grow food and the strategies Izzo Slim of Marafiki Community International is using to reduce .
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Listen to how drinking water and bathing from a river contaminated by raw sewerage to spring water has changing lives of this Kenyan women.
When a story calls, we up, pack our pens, cameras, notebooks, we chase and ensure we have maximum fun and safety. Why we, God of our forefathers always comes alone with us, and goes ahead of us calming those storms 🥰
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Recently, I visited and found Mary Njoki and Izzo Slim doing some amazing work with the glass bottles scattered all over neighbouring towns.
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Cleaning the Masai Mara, a glass at a time: Meet a young Kenyan lady – Mary Njoki, repurposing waste glass at Masai Mara and selling them to the local marke...
Would you stay in a cabin constructed using not only plastic bottles, but also every non-degradable waste you can think of—straws, broken glass bottles, clothes, beer cans, to name just a few—right in there during construction.
How are the plastics turned to bricks? Listen to this episode below with Izzo Slim of Marafiki Community International
Meet a Kenyan social entrepreneur making cabins out of plastic and other non-biodegradable waste helping keep Kenya’s Masai Mara clean.
Picture this. It’s a lovely evening. You and your loved one sit somewhere, savouring juice or beer from a glass crafted from liquor bottles collected from a dumping site.
How does that sound?
On today’s episode, meet a young Kenyan lady, Mary Njoki, who is repurposing waste glass at Anyoraa Masai Mara and selling it back to the local market.
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Glass waste consists of 4 percent of municipal solid waste generated in Africa. Meet a young Kenyan lady repurposing waste glass at Masai Mara.
Hours away from the conclusion of a text on the Global Stocktake update.
COP28 kicks off with high promises to deliver on climate finance for poor nations while parties agree to operationalize the historic
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COP28 presidency commits to ensure COP28 unlocks climate finance for poor nations while delivering a historic loss and damage agreement.
While the has speedily delivered a historic agreement to operationalize the , it’s important to remember the technical team had set conditionalities for the WorldBank and the bank has to respond. At the end it’s critical that the fund be directly accessible nationally, sustainable and that there is actual money to be accessed 😉 with clear source of funds, and that this does not lead to further debts especially in Africa (my motherland) acutely impacted by .
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has officially began in Dubai.
With 2023 being the hottest years again, action (less talk) is the key word
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The push for a fund started in 1991 when the Alliance of Small Island States proposed creating an international insurance pool to compensate for loss and damages.
With kicking off next week, will there be an agreement on the proposal by the transitional committee in Dubai?
I had a conversation with Alpha Oumar Kaloga the African leader negotiator on loss and damage.
You can listen to the whole convo via this link: https://africaclimateconversations.com/podcast/african-lead-negotiator-i-hope-the-loss-and-damage-fund-does-not-become-a-bargaining-chip-at-cop28/
Sometimes back I read and article by WWF-Kenya that said that when we waste food, we also waste all the energy and water it takes to grow, harvest, transport, and package it. And if food goes to the landfill and rots, it produces methane.
Its true! But sometimes, we don’t want to waste. These papayas started rotting three days since they were bought🤔 despite best storage conditions.
Not only are local communities and organisations essential for but also for addressing issues of sustainability, poverty reduction, and economic development in Africa.
Resson Kantai Duff the Portfolio Funding Director at Maliasili says international partnership are critical for successful grassroots interventions as they provide support from policy level, funding and technical support to local organisations.
but a recent report by Maliasili says these partnerships continue to confront obstacles regarding power dynamics, transparency, and interest alignment. Hence they need reforms.
Listen to our latest conversation with Resson.
International partnerships are key to African conservation organisation but the approach, and structure of these partnerships need change.
Our latest YouTube episode on reintroducing in
Watch: https://youtube.com/watch?v=iMhBalaysYA&si=i1IwHIAL2WBwhA0V
African traditional value systems viewed the relationship between humans and as a spiritual one, in which humans relied on nature (which was freely provided to them by God) for sustenance and it was therefore their responsibility to protect it. With the advent of and the influence of Western 'civilization' in Africa, however, the traditions, values, and general way of life of Africans were significantly altered.
I had a conversation with Machaya Chomba, a conservationist at the Barotse Floodplains. He mentions that modern conservation has tended to decouple conservation and utilisation of resources, thereby disempowering communities to utilise and conserve their local environment. Listen to part one of Re-introducing in . Please leave us a comment, subscribe, like and share.
Traditional African systems were intricately intertwined with the environment and its resources, and therefore played a crucial role in conservation. African...
The synthesis report of the first technical dialogue was released about a week ago.
Among its 17 key findings, the report calls for all parties to take credible, accountable, and transparent actions, as well as an emphasis on inclusion and equity, which can enhance ambition in and support, and system changes across all sectors.
What should do to make its climate efforts on the ground measurable and impactful? Listen to David Lesolle, a seasoned Botswana climate negotiator.
Full episode here: https://africaclimateconversations.com/podcast/global-stocktake-africa-stop-make-your-climate-needs-smart-and-measurable-first/
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Have you watched our latest episode on YouTube? If not please check out Africa Climate Conversations or click the link on bio. Listen to how at 70 years age hasn’t deterred Josephine from constantly finding means to adapt to changing climate.
A mother is the soil that natures us all. As you love on your mother or the mother of your children remember to protect that soil critical for your survival and that of your future generations. Happy #motherday #mothernature
The survival of Birds and insects are interlinked. They are also key to our existence as humans pollinating the food we depend on for survival. But are we mindful of their survival? #worldmigratorybirdday
The last couple of days floods have devastated various parts of Kenya. Often, those in power do not think of the importance ecosystem such as the #mangroves play in safeguarding not just the communities but also infrastructure such as this bridge being constructed to open up Funzi island connecting it to the mainland in south coast Kenya. Watch the full documentary on YouTube.
When Mother Nature speak, we must listen. We must ask ourselves, what have we done? Can we help repair the damage? What do we need to do? #floodsituation #floodsinkenya
As the World celebrate the #Earthday2024, we pay special attention to the #Mangrove ecosystems. In Kwale County, south of Mombasa Kenya, a bridge construction opening up Funzi Island to the mainland cut off a section of Mangroves forests leading to #pollution and extensive diebacks. This has also impacted community efforts to restore the previously degraded mangrove forest areas along the Vanga-Funzi complex. Infrastructure development is among major threat threatening mangroves in Kenya. Please watch the full documentary on Youtube 👉 https://youtu.be/s3_AxPXCCZI
What are you doing to reduce #waste
In 2020, during the COVID-19 epidemic, a group of fifteen women joined together to protect a stretch of Mangrove forest on the southern coast of Kenya's Vanga-Funzi Bay. With the addition of youth and children's conservation wings, the Tunusuru Conservation Women's Group has grown to a robust 30 members. The women had successfully propagated around 400,000 propagules by the end of 2023. To find out how they are making a living, what motivated them, and how they are propagating these mangroves, please check out Africa Climate Conversations on all podcast channels or our website Link below https://africaclimateconversations.com/podcast/empowering-women-revitalizing-mangroves-a-story-from-kenya/ #kenya #oceanconservation #mangrove #women4climate
Watch our latest production on the Africa Climate Conversations YouTube #coralreef #oceanconservation
Tropical Storm Filipo made landfall earlier today in central southern Mozambique.
Hasan Mohamed Sani, a deputy warden at the Pate Marine Community Conservancy (PMCC) and a community coral restoration expert is talking about how in 2021 communities from three villages—Pate, Shanga Ishakani, and Shanga Rubu (in Lamu County) came together, formed a locally managed marine area, segregated the area, restricted fishing, and built artificial blocks that mimicked the natural #coralreef environment and started transplanting corals onto them. They partnered with Northern Rangelands Trust Coast The Nature Conservancy Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute as well as the Lamu county fisheries department among other partners. To understand more on their journey, successes, challenges and inspiring the Kiunga Community, please listen to our latest podcast episode here 👇 https://africaclimateconversations.com/.../meet-a-kenyan.../
These local women are contracted to collect and fill these #singleuseplastics used to build eco-cabins with either sand or paper. Would you stay in a cabin made of plastics? Watch the episode on YouTube 👉 https://youtu.be/3WOoC4Xi50g?si=5CPy7NZwvQ7KMPfc. PLS Subscribe.
Would you stay in a cabin made of #plastics? @izzo.slim of @marafikikenya is cleaning up the #masaimara neighborhood by engaging local women in collecting #singleuseplastic filling them with sand which he uses to construct these cabins. Please watch the full video on the Africa Climate Conversations YouTube page.
Without cold chains at the village level the fish is salted and sun dried on these raised racks. The fish retains its quality, stays longer and fetches them better pay.
When in search of a story and the boat ain’t boating, the motorbike has to bike. Love the field and everything that comes with it. You can follow me on instagram @sophie_dans Check us out on YouTube - Africa Climate Conversations. Subscribe so you don’t miss these amazing stories from coastal Kenya. 🥂
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