Conservation

The Maasai Mara is at the center of a new showdown as activists accuse luxury camps of blocking wildebeest migration routes. KWS refutes the claims, but the clash exposes deeper climate and land-use pressures reshaping Kenya’s most iconic ecosystem.

Kenya’s leading environmental organizations, the Green Belt Movement and Greenpeace Africa, have strongly condemned the government’s decision to lift the logging ban in the Mau Forest Complex. They warn the move threatens Kenya’s water towers, undermines climate resilience, and risks erasing years of progress in forest conservation. With the Mau at the heart of the country’s water security, activists say reopening it to logging is an environmental and economic disaster in the making.

Kenya’s iconic coffee industry faces a grim future, with a new FAO report warning that up to 90% of current coffee-growing areas could become unsuitable by 2050 due to rising temperatures, erratic rainfall, and deforestation. The country’s smallholder farmers — who produce most of its arabica beans — stand to lose the most unless urgent climate adaptation, reforestation, and agroforestry measures are taken.

When a deadly mine disaster struck a Chinese-run site in Africa, the tragedy exposed not just unsafe labor practices — but the deeper inequities at the heart of the global green transition. Behind the silence lies a question of justice: Who pays the price for the world’s hunger for minerals?

Kenya’s new Wildlife Conservation and Management Act 2025 marks a turning point in protecting biodiversity by placing communities at the center of conservation. With tougher penalties for poaching, expanded compensation for human–wildlife conflict, and revenue-sharing for local communities, the law aims to secure Kenya’s wildlife future through equity and accountability.