You are browsing the archives of Small African Fellowship for Conservation.

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 [...]

Back in June 2008 when I first posted about the Endangered Sharpe’s Longclaw - which is endemic to the grasslands of the Kinangop Plateau near Nairobi - I had no idea at all just what the year would bring in terms of our (10,000 Birds) developing relationship with the local community and especially with a [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Less than a month ago 10,000 Birds launched a fund-raising project aimed at providing funding - in the form of the “Small African Fellowship for Conservation” (SAFC) - to a young Kenyan called Dominic Kamau Kimani who comes from the Kinangop Plateau near Nairobi. The Kinangop Plateau is the core area of the Endangered and [...]

I can’t imagine staying at a hotel in the US, Europe, or the Far East without being able to plug in and broadcast (via 10,000 Birds of course) a stream of words and photos to a waiting world - I’m exaggerating of course, but that’s what I like to pretend to myself sometimes - and [...]

 
A Conservation Project is born.

In June (2008) I was fortunate enough to be on a short birding trip in Nairobi with Shailesh Patel and George Kamau. Amongst the birds Shailesh and George were able to show me was one that I had never seen before and knew almost nothing about: the Endangered and highly range-restricted [...]