Website that monitors deforestation in near real-time launched

Deforestation in Kenya.Photo: IRIN/Charles Akena By Caleb Mutua A website that allows you to report cases of deforestation and provides you with near real-time information on the rate at which trees are disappearing worldwide is now available for free. World’s top environmental conservation...

Uhuru: China will aid fight against poachers

President Uhuru Kenyatta ended his week-long tour of China and got a commitment from the Asian giant to help tackle the problem of poaching. Mr Kenyatta is expected back in the country at the end of what is easily his most high profile tour of his young...

KWS admits war on poachers ‘tougher’

PHOTO | KWS Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) director William Kiprono.  KWS ...

Toxic waste container shipped back to UK

Officials at Mitchell Cotts Freighters Ltd Mombasa accompanied by senior clerk Skyward International, a clearing agent Mr Charles Nyanyigo (right) opening the container that was shipped into the country from UK purported to be carrying plastic bottles but had west disposal in August 17, 2013....

Ivory or horns? Real nature of goods disputed

A report by the National Museums of Kenya will determine the fate of a driver and conductor of a courier firm accused of transporting Sh5.1 million worth of ivory. Photo/FILE  Tests are being carried out to establish whether...

Chinese woman nabbed at JKIA with 6.9kg of ivory worth Sh1.2

A Chinese woman was Wednesday night arrested at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) with 6.9 kilos of ivory disguised as macadamia nuts valued at Sh1.2 millio...

MP and governor linked to poaching

PHOTO | GIDEON MAUNDU A KWS ranger arranges some of the 775 pieces of ivory tusks which were netted in a container by KRA officers at a private godown in Jomvu on July 3, 2013. The ivory, worth Sh29 million, was in transit to Malaysia from Uganda.   NATION MEDIA GROUP Two...