Together with other farmers from his local church (Kirosa Rock Church), John was taken through Farming God’s Way (FGW) training and is now among the best in implementing the conservation farming. Farming,has for a long while been considered a female engagement...
Worldwide, the Golden-rumped Elephant-Shrew exclusively inhabits the Malindi area. Neither elephant nor shrew it gets its name from its long, flexible trunk-like nose. Also known as a “sengi”, it is the size of a rabbit and occurs only in...
The title comes from the hearts of the Environmental and wildlife clubs members in the different schools around Dakatcha that A Rocha Kenya is working with. Dakatcha woodlands is an internationally recognised forest. It is home to some of...
The Dakatcha Woodlands are an internationally important Key Biodiversity Area home to globally rare and threatened species of birds and mammals. Furthermore it is marginal land for agriculture being semi-arid and not getting better given a drying climate. A...
In Dakatcha woodlands creation care and new livelihood opportunities has shown its potential, in an A Rocha project funded by Tearfund. Read about some of the people and communities that have been transformed. Since February 2016, A Rocha...
The journey in conservation continues to take endless turns and passages that have profoundly contributed in the realization of very fundamental truths about nature. In retrospect, A Rocha Kenya has been humbled by the achievements in conservation work and...
“I was introduced to Gabriel Katana in 1998 by his brother Safari as someone who would be good to take over the House Crow control fieldwork that Safari was no longer able to do. A tall, quiet and very...
“Conservationists of all persuasions have embarked on a quest for environmental sustainability but in the face of an acutely difficult task we all need to consider what would motivate us to achieve it”- Peter Harris (Kingfisher’s Fire). In retrospect,...
Towards the end of May A Rocha Kenya conducted a training on Care of Creation in five villages in Dakatcha. Since moisture (water) plays a pivotal role in the wellbeing of the rest of the creation, the film Water...
A Rocha Kenya continues to empower Dakatcha farmers with farming God`s Way; a form of conservation agriculture whose principles; agroforestry, mulching, zero tillage and crop rotation, boost soil fertility and yield hence discouraging farmers from clearing the forest for...