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As regular readers will know (and hopefully a lot more who aren’t regular but will know anyway) 10,000 Birds has been supporting a project in the Kinangop Grasslands in Kenya which has the ultimate aim of conserving the Endangered Sharpe’s Longclaw Macronyx sharpei

One very important element of our support has been the funding of The [...]

As regular readers (and hopefully some irregular readers as well) will know, 10,000 Birds is supporting conservation of the Endangered Sharpe’s Longclaw in Kenya’s Kinangop Highlands. And ’supporting’ is the key word here: as we’ve said many times before we’re not scientists or researchers and are not remotely qualified to be doing work ‘on the [...]

As part of The Small African Fellowship for Conservation that 10,000 Birds readers generously helped provide him, Dominic Kimani provides reports every three months on the work he is doing on Kenya’s Kinangop Plateau to help conserve the Endangered Sharpe’s Longclaw. These reports got to the National Museums of Kenya which oversee his work and [...]

Yesterday I wrote what was intended to be a short post about a visit I made last month to the Mugumoini Primary School in Kinangop with Dominic Kimani and James Wainaina. Typically I became more enthused the more I reminisced, and finally ran right out of time before I’d been able to post a series [...]

In a post a few days ago I tried to explain in more detail the direction our Sharpe’s Longclaw/Kinangop Grasslands campaign was heading, and highlight what the impact was of posting photos of communities that wouldn’t under everyday circumstances see themselves on the internet. I put online photographs of the members of the monitoring team [...]

It’s taken me quite a while to organise my thoughts after last week’s return visit to Nairobi and the Kinangop grasslands with Dominic Kamau Kimani (recipient of our Small African Fellowship for Conservation funding for the work he does protecting the globally Endangered Sharpe’s Longclaw Macronyx sharpei).

The day was packed, the flights either side [...]

The bloggers of the 10,000 Birds team are or have been on their travels this week, and as I’m first back - from another amazing day in Nairobi with Dominic and the Friends of Kinangop Plateau - and Mike and Corey don’t have internet access (though Mike has somehow managed to get connected long enough [...]

Native Kinangop Grasslands…

….lost to potato cultivation

 
The Kinangop Plateau, home to the endemic Sharpe’s Longclaw and numerous other endemic forms of fauna and flora, is rapidly being converted from native tussock-grass dominated grasslands to sub-divided agricultural plots where - in particular - potatoes and cabbages are grown.

Prior to the early 1960s most of the land on [...]

The monitoring team identifying the birds they are seeing using an excellent but extremely large ‘Birds of Kenya and Northern Tanzania’ Helm Guide.
 

From left to right: Dominic Kimani, James Waweru, Jack and Joakim Kiiru, James Wainaina, Kiboi Muthee and Njoroge Githuki.
 

Son and proud father, Jack and Joakim Kiiru
 

James Waweru
 

Kiboi Muthee
 

Njoroge Githuki

 
All photos copyright Charlie Moores [...]

A Three Month Report on Environmental Education in Kinangop.
October –December 2008.
By
Dominic Kimani.
Zoology Department, Ornithology Department, National Museums of Kenya.
 
Charlie’s Visit to Kinangop.

The month of October 2008 was jubilation as Charlie Moores visited Kinangop, to officially launch the School outreach Project. Charlie started by visiting our Head office in Nairobi National Museums. He was received by [...]

You know, if someone had asked me last year whether bloggers can actually make a difference I might have been a little equivocal - after all, despite the mushrooming growth in nature/bird-related blogs the number of animals and plants in danger of extinction rises every time the data are recalculated. However, after our first foray [...]

I’m just back from Nairobi, Kenya after one of the most motivating and inspiring days I’ve had for many years. It’s going to take me a week or so to fully write-up everything that happened - which included speaking at a village school in the grasslands below the Aberdare Mountains, being made an honorary Kikuyu [...]