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Kakamega
Environmental Education Programme
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SSG is based in Kakamega forest in the Western part of Kenya operating
from Isceheno Forest station at the South and the Kenya Wildlife
Service Buyangu station in the North.
Kakamega forest is a mid-altitude tropical rainforest, the easternmost
outlier of the Congo Basin forests. Its West African Affinities
are unique in Kenya, and the forest contains many species found
nowhere else in the country.
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Activities
and impacts
• Biodiversity monitoring
• Environmental education outreach programme reaching 160
schools
• By March 2007 more than 3,000/seedlings planted with10,000
seedlings in nursery
• Ecotourism and tour guiding: Watch tower constructed and
earns Shs 500 per month, accommodation Bandas established and earning
Shs 30,000 per month
• Bee keeping
• Butterfly faming earning more than Ksh. 20,000 from butterfly
per month
• Established links with Western State College of Colorado
and Pittsburgh Zoo
• Established a mondia (medicinal climber) processing factory
in Kakamega town
• Teaching youth about Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive
health
Partners:
Darwin Initiative, Kenya Forest Service, Kenya Wildlife Service
Donors: DOF (BirdLife in Denmark), Darwin Initiative,
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