“There’s big money to be made in forests across Africa,” says Anjali Nayar, a Canadian scientist turned journalist turned activist who founded the company TIMBY in Nairobi in 2012. With big money ...

In one of Kenya’s biggest watersheds, the Sengwer indigenous community has struggled to obtain land rights for the forest it has called home for generations. The government has been forcefully ...

Seven years ago, the World Bank set out to help preserve Kenya’s Embobut Forest for future generations. As part of the Natural Resource Management Project, it spent millions to mitigate erosion, ...

Kenyan security forces have been burning hundreds of homes – belonging to some of the country’s oldest hunter-gatherers – in the last fortnight, in the name of ‘conserving forest biodiversity’ and ...

Nine years ago, hundreds of squatters, who had settled in Embobut forest located in Elgeyo Marakwet and parts of West Pokot counties were evicted, to pave way for conservation But the eviction marked ...

Human rights activists Liz Acden-Wily (left), and Faith Alubbe during a press conference in Nairobi on Friday last week. The activists called on the Government to end the eviction of the Sengwer from ...

NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Security forces are flushing "criminal elements" out of a forest in western Kenya, an official said on Thursday, two days after a man was killed there, leading ...

NAIROBI, Jan 5 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The Sengwer, a tribe living in the forests of western Kenya, say they have faced a fresh round of evictions by Kenyan authorities to pave the way for a ...

Kenya's Sengwer community is one of the last to live in the Embobut Forest, in the North Rift Valley. But the government accuses this Indigenous people of damaging the forest and has asked them to ...

Controversy is raging in Elgeyo Marakwet County following the government's order to evict more than 15,000 squatters from Embobut forest which is one of the key water towers in the North Rift region.