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NatureKenya
NatureKenya is the BirdLife Partner
Founded in:
1909
Members:
1100
Staff:
35
Address:
NatureKenya, P O Box 44486, 00100 GPO, Nairobi, Kenya
Email:
office@naturekenya.org
Web:
http://www.naturekenya.org/
Mission of the organisation
Connecting nature and people.
Key Activities
Member trips, outings & lectures, publication of journals, magazines & other books, IBA conservation work and education programme.
Conservation Programmes
- Important Bird Areas Programme
- Projects
- Specialist Committees
- Nest Record Scheme
- Monitoring
- Training
- Publishing
Strategic targets
- To increase public awareness of the global, national, and local values of biodiversity
- Key biodiversity conservation sites prioritised, studied, documented and findings disseminated
- Nature Kenya’s influence on decision affecting biodiversity increased
- Action for protection of key species, sites and habitats specified and initiated
- Larger, broader and active membership base developed
- Funding increased from diversified sources
- Effectiveness and efficiency of Nature Kenya management and administration enhanced
Recent Achievements
- Biodiversity of database for EAMCF Hotspot maintained and expanded
- IBA monitoring status and trends 2004 launched
- Contributed to 2nd National report to CBD
- Input to national policy and legislation e.g. Forest Bill, Land Policy, EMCA, Wetlands
- Attendance at global fora (SBSTTAs, CBD-COPs, BirdLife Global Conference, IUCN, World Parks Congress, WSSD)
- 45 acres of land reserve purchased in Kinangop grasslands for protection of the globally threatened endemic Sharpe’s Longclaw
- Mt Kenya Resource Centre under construction supported by GEF UNDP COMPACT
- Membership has been maintained at over 1000 members
- Education programme is developing a resource book, Learning for sustainable living in Kenya, to be sent to all public schools in Kenya to help enhance teaching
- Donors diversified: USAID, KNH/NABU, DOF/DANIDA, Darwin, BP, Ford Foundation, GEF, GEF-COMPACT, IUCN Netherlands, Jensen Foundation, EU-BCP
