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...
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 fate of our Important Bird Areas…
Arabuko Sokoke forest is the only remaining strip of what used to be health and continuous Coastal dry forest in mainland Africa stretching from Northern Mozambique to Southern Somalia. With an area of only 420km square remaining, the forest...
Young People on a Global Stage.
Young People on a Global Stage (YPGS) is a project that brings together schools in the UK, Germany, Spain, Kenya and The Gambia to research on global sustainable issues; biodiversity, including trees, waste management, climate change, food and water,...
Wader Ringing in Coastal Kenya.
Kenya is important for tens of thousands of wintering waders. While some species like the Little Stint (Calidris minuta) and Caspian Plover (Charadrius asiaticus) prefer the fresh water bodies inland, many others target the coastal zone. The rich inter-tidal...