Welcome On-Board
Greetings friends of A Rocha, It is with great pleasure that l take on this noble task to serve alongside ARK and the team. First I would like to thank the outgoing chair, Edwyn Kiptinness, who has headed the...
Racing for conservation.
An amazing 72 riders started from Turtle Bay Beach Club for the 2nd Sokoke Forest MTB Challenge at the weekend. 63 km later 68 returned after riding through coconut and cashew nut plantations, mangrove forest, down steep fast descents...
We challenge each other – We take action!
Education (formal or informal) is the basis for all of life including environmental matters. To increase environmental awareness and also improve ecological knowledge Environmental Education is important, so that we can know the actions to take to help improve...
When and where do the Sand Plovers fly?
Ever heard of moult strategies? At Mida Creek each year thousands of migrant waders drop their feathers and grow new ones ready to take them up to 8,000 km to their breeding grounds – and back. Now studied in...
What they value, they will preserve
A Rocha Kenya continues to hold a week long, yearly camp for the ASSETS beneficiaries and this year was no exception. A bright Tuesday morning, April the 17th, a team of five headed by Festus Masha, our community...
Welcome to our renewed E-News!
A Rocha Kenya’s E-Newsletter was relaunched on April 6th 2018. Here is our Director’s greeting: Dear friends of A Rocha Kenya, The rains are almost upon us – in fact we’ve had some storms already and there is...
WATER! WATER! WATER!
Have you ever taken a second of your precious time to wonder about Water? #Water is the only thing that covers 71% of all the earth and only 1% is fresh water while the rest is salty water in...
WHEN WEATHER PERSISTS TO BE THE TALK!
“Siku hizi kumebadilika sana,” is a common Swahili phrase used by almost everyone to refer to the changes in weather patterns today. All this is #Climate change which is a reality already here with us. The effects are felt...
THE YEAR 2015, THE HOPE AND PROMISE OF 2016
“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,...
MWAMBA TALKS KITE SURFING
Maybe it’s the clear blue waters, maybe it’s the sunshine, maybe it’s the brilliant instructor or it’s probably just the thrill of the ride; but there is a brand new hot sport in Watamu- Kite surfing. One avid surfer...