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Kenya Biodiversity Conservation Group
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Based
in Mount Kenya, this Site Support Group’s office is located
in Naro moru town. The group has sixty members, mostly youth from
the local community. Mount Kenya lies about 140 km north north-east
of Nairobi. An extremely important water catchment area, supplying
the Tana and Northern Ewaso Ng’iro systems, Mt Kenya is undoubtedly
a stronghold for the threatened and little-known Abbott’s
Starling. It has a rich montane bird fauna, with 53 out of Kenya’s
67 African Highlands biome species, at least 35 forest-specialist
species, and six of the eight species that make up the Kenyan Mountains
Endemic Bird Area
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Activities
and impacts
• The local community and schools have received training on
good environmental practices and farm forestry. As a result local
schools have planted trees in their compounds and now their roofs
get blown off by prevalent strong winds less often; more locals
are practicing farm forestry, generating income and decreasing pressure
for wood fuel from the forest; group membership has grown and young
men who would otherwise have been idling in the village have a source
of income
• Tour guiding and porters services for mountain climbers
• Forest rehabilitation through tree planting
• guided bird walks for members, the local community and visitors
every last Saturday of every month
• Annual mountain clean-up at the end of the tourist high
season i.e. May and September/October. Plastic waste is sold to
recyclers.
• Participates in the Kenya biodiversity monitoring framework
inputting into Kenya’s Important Bird Areas Status and Trends
Report.
• Mt. Kenya Eco-Resource Center constructed on site. Though
not completed, the center is beginning to offer environmental education
to the local children, men and women.
Partners: Kenya Forest Service, Kenya Wildlife Service,
Donors: UNDP/COMPACT, DOF (BirdLife in Denmark)
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