Catherine Whittle is spending 18 months volunteering at A Rocha Kenya as her PhD fieldwork. She’s an anthropologist, but that doesn’t mean much to most people here! We sat down with her to try to understand more about her...
At A Rocha Kenya, we’re big supporters of citizen science: projects through which ordinary people, non-scientists, can contribute to scientific knowledge of biodiversity through their own observations. One citizen science project we run as regularly as we can at...
The beginning of the year could not go by without our annual trip to Tana River Delta to count water birds! This year’s trip was initially postponed by a few weeks because of flooding in the area, but we...
At the end of January, a team of keen bird-watchers, local bird guides and curious ARK volunteers embarked on early morning adventures to go find and count as many waterbirds as possible… Two groups were formed, one was to...
Our very own Arabuko-Sokoke Forest was recently included to be part of the biosphere reserves protected by UNESCO worldwide. Up until last year, the reserve had only covered the Marine National Park and Mida Creek tidal inlet. The forest,...
If you are currently in the coastal region of Kenya or have visited here in the past few months you may have noticed this black bird in the skies and streets, often bullying people and other birds and animals...
A little help goes a long way. This is felt first hand by the ASSETS team as they visit the homes surrounding Arabuko-Sokoke Forest to discuss bursary allocation details with the parents and guardians of the pupils who had...
This past month, A Rocha Kenya Environmental Education (EE) team held it’s bi-annual ‘ASSETS Awareness Week’, the second one this year since April. We went around the community surrounding Arabuko-Sokoke Forest as well as Mida creek to visit ASSETS...
The creation care programme was at it again, this time around at the Mulunguni PEFA church. With schools closed, there was a relatively higher number of young people attending the Sunday Church Service. We were on the Third sermon...
Whenever you see this peculiar group of people with binoculars and telescopes in your area do not mistake them for tourists. These are birders, people who have dedicated their lives to study the distribution and characteristics of different bird...