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“That season” is fast approaching again - you know, the one with the pine trees and the reindeer, the jolly chap with the beard (no, not your dipso uncle Harold, the other chap) - and 10,000 Birds is getting in the mood by asking you to give AND to receive…and help us take the next [...]

Regular readers will know (because they helped pay for it!) that 10,000 Birds recently set up the “Small African Fellowship for Conservation” which helps fund a young Kenyan researcher called Dominic Kamau Kimani. Dominic (with Luca Borghesio, the Friends of Kinangop Plateau, and Dr Muchai Muchane of the National Museums of Kenya) is trying to [...]

As part of the ongoing co-operation between 10,000 Birds and the teams working on the ground in Kenya to plot the distribution of the Sharpe’s Longclaw, a pipit-like species confined to the Kenyan Highlands close to Nairobi, Luca Borgesio has sent through a field report from the core of this Endangered bird’s world-range. We are [...]

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 [...]

As I wrote on my first post about my amazing day-trip to Nairobi last weekend (see Life Changing Moments in the Kenyan Highlands) one of the highlights was a visit to the Njabini wool-spinning workshop run by the Friends of the Kinangop Plateau* with Nature Kenya (the Birdlife International partner in Kenya).

The Njabini Wool-spinning [...]

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 [...]

I’m off to Kenya at the weekend for a very short trip, and I’m really looking forward to it. Why? Because despite the fact that I’ll only be spending about thirty hours in Kenya in total, this is the weekend I’m scheduled to meet up with Luca Borgesio and Dominic Kamau Kimani (and hopefully [...]

I thought that 10,000 Birds readers may be interested to know that the first part of the donations raised for the Small African Fellowship for Conservation has been deposited in Kenya, and funds will start to be distributed on a monthly basis to Dominic Kimani from the start of October as planned.

I’m sure anyone who [...]