Africa Climate Conversations

29/04/2024

Since 2021, I have walked a mile with a family from Gitugi village in Murang’a county who were impacted by a landslide in 2018.

The long term mental health impacts that results from these disasters takes a big toll not just on the psycho-social aspect but the general well being of those left after the tragedy.

Today, as Mai-Mahiu was hit so was Kiganjo in Mathioya close to Gitugi. The risk of more landslides is very prevalent with the amount of rainfall Kenya has received.

22/04/2024

As the World celebrate the , we pay special attention to the ecosystems. In Kwale County, south of Mombasa Kenya, a bridge construction opening up Funzi Island to the mainland cut off a section of Mangroves forests leading to and extensive diebacks. This has also impacted community efforts to restore the previously degraded mangrove forest areas along the Vanga-Funzi complex.

Infrastructure development is among major threat threatening mangroves in Kenya.

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29/03/2024

In 2020, during the COVID-19 epidemic, a group of fifteen women joined together to protect a stretch of Mangrove forest on the southern coast of Kenya's Vanga-Funzi Bay. With the addition of youth and children's conservation wings, the Tunusuru Conservation Women's Group has grown to a robust 30 members. The women had successfully propagated around 400,000 propagules by the end of 2023.

To find out how they are making a living, what motivated them, and how they are propagating these mangroves, please check out Africa Climate Conversations on all podcast channels or our website Link below https://africaclimateconversations.com/podcast/empowering-women-revitalizing-mangroves-a-story-from-kenya/

15/03/2024

Journalism! The fuel that drives me. Sometimes I wonder what else I would be doing if not telling stories. Africa! the continent I call home.

08/03/2024

Hasan Mohamed Sani, a deputy warden at the Pate Marine Community Conservancy (PMCC) and a community coral restoration expert is talking about how in 2021 communities from three villages—Pate, Shanga Ishakani, and Shanga Rubu (in Lamu County) came together, formed a locally managed marine area, segregated the area, restricted fishing, and built artificial blocks that mimicked the natural environment and started transplanting corals onto them.

They partnered with Northern Rangelands Trust Coast The Nature Conservancy Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute as well as the Lamu county fisheries department among other partners.

To understand more on their journey, successes, challenges and inspiring the Kiunga Community, please listen to our latest podcast episode here 👇
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05/03/2024

More than 3, 000 people in 600 households along the Pate-Kiunga area in Lamu County directly or indirectly depend on through artisanal fisheries and tourism. But with over years Coral reef degradation, the fish started disappearing impacting their livelihoods.

But in 2021, the communities together with the Northern Rangelands Trust The Nature Conservancy Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute Kenya Wildlife Service Kenya Forest Service and the Lamu County Government fisheries department came together, build artificial blocks that mimic the natural coral environment and started transplanting corals on them.

How has this artificial coral reef restoration project helped replenish fish along the Pate-Kiunga area? and how is it impacting these community livelihoods.

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Meet communities at the Pate-Kiunga in Kenya's Lamu County have come together to revive the degraded coral reefs allowing fish to replenish.

01/03/2024

This Tuesday, come with me to Pate Island in , the largest island in the Lamu Archipelago, lying between the towns of Lamu and Kiunga. Communities here depend on fishing. However, fishery productivity depends on healthy . The corals in the Lamu-Kiunga area have degraded over the years. How did it impact these communities’ livelihoods? What degraded these corals? What are these communities doing about it?

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22/02/2024

These local women are contracted to collect and fill these used to build eco-cabins with either sand or paper.

Would you stay in a cabin made of plastics?

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18/02/2024

Cabins made of plastics bottles at the Masai mara

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𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐥𝐲, 𝐒𝐔𝐁𝐒𝐂𝐑𝐈𝐁𝐄 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐲 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥

Meet Isaack Mwangi, of Marafiki Community International. In 2015, while tour-guiding at Kenya's iconic he spotted lions playing with a plastic bot...

15/02/2024

Without cold chains at the village level the fish is salted and sun dried on these raised racks. The fish retains its quality, stays longer and fetches them better pay.

15/02/2024

UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell speaking at the United Nations on the impact of climate change and food insecurity on the maintenance of international peace and security:

15/02/2024

14/02/2024

: Women in Olailamutia, a town in Kenya's Narok County, have had problems with diarrhoea, stomachaches, and skin rashes for many years. Families here got water to drink from a river where they also took baths.

Having access to clean drinking water from a spring is helping to get rid of these problems.

The river in question has been contaminated due to chemical use, upstream intensive irrigation, and the discharge of untreated sewage into which they bathed their children.

Listen to how in addition, access to water is helping grow food water is helping grow food and the strategies Izzo Slim of Marafiki Community International is using to reduce .

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Listen to how drinking water and bathing from a river contaminated by raw sewerage to spring water has changing lives of this Kenyan women.

07/02/2024

When a story calls, we up, pack our pens, cameras, notebooks, we chase and ensure we have maximum fun and safety. Why we, God of our forefathers always comes alone with us, and goes ahead of us calming those storms 🥰

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02/02/2024

Recently, I visited and found Mary Njoki and Izzo Slim doing some amazing work with the glass bottles scattered all over neighbouring towns.

Watch it on the Africa Climate Conversations Youtube. Please do not forget to subscribe, like and share the video.

Have a good one.

Cleaning the Masai Mara, a glass at a time: Meet a young Kenyan lady – Mary Njoki, repurposing waste glass at Masai Mara and selling them to the local marke...

31/01/2024

Would you stay in a cabin constructed using not only plastic bottles, but also every non-degradable waste you can think of—straws, broken glass bottles, clothes, beer cans, to name just a few—right in there during construction.

How are the plastics turned to bricks? Listen to this episode below with Izzo Slim of Marafiki Community International

Meet a Kenyan social entrepreneur making cabins out of plastic and other non-biodegradable waste helping keep Kenya’s Masai Mara clean.

18/01/2024

Picture this. It’s a lovely evening. You and your loved one sit somewhere, savouring juice or beer from a glass crafted from liquor bottles collected from a dumping site.

How does that sound?

On today’s episode, meet a young Kenyan lady, Mary Njoki, who is repurposing waste glass at Anyoraa Masai Mara and selling it back to the local market.

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Glass waste consists of 4 percent of municipal solid waste generated in Africa. Meet a young Kenyan lady repurposing waste glass at Masai Mara.

11/12/2023

Hours away from the conclusion of a text on the Global Stocktake update.