The shrinking highland forests around Mount Kenya are the focus of conservation action, while ecotourism in the unique remnant Kakamega rainforest is helping to secure biodiversity. Kenya's human population is dependent upon fresh water from forested highlands. Extensive wildlife areas in northern and eastern Kenya support unique Somali arid-zone wildlife.
The fenced surroundings of Kichwa Tembo affords the fragile riparian forest of the Sabaringo River complete protection. Rare species such as Red-tailed Monkey, Ross's Turaco and Luhder's Bushshrike dwell in the forests of Diospyros and Warburgia trees.
CC Africa provides an annual grant to the work of the Kakamega Environmental Education Program (KEEP) in western Kenya. Kakamega is Kenya's only true rainforest with an enormous wealth of biodiversity, but is threatened with encroachment from expanding human settlement.
KEEP works with teachers and children to promote the value of Kakamega as an important water catchment, a site for renewable forest resources and a source of income through ecotourism. KEEP chairman Wilberforce Okeka has been sponsored to visit Kichwa Tembo to see the benefits of ecotourism and the company's Positive Health program, while several Kichwa guides have travelled to Kakamega.
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