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The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) held its 10th Conference of the parties in Nagoya, Japan, from October 18 to 29, 2010. 

From 18th to 29th October, the world is meeting (Conference of Parties 10 for the Convention on Biological Diversity) in Nagoya Japan to assess how well we are slowing or reversing biodiversity loss.

Let’s start with explaining the meaning of biodiversity and why it is important.

Mt Kenya Eco Resource Centre is a community project dealing with biodiversity conservation, environmental education, community development ,tourism and information dissemination. It is located 180km north of Nairobi along Nairobi-Nanyuki ...

The Kereita Forest at the southern-most end of the Aberdares range features many interesting hiking trails established by Kijabe Environment Volunteers (KENVO), a local community based organization that works to conserve this rich biodiversity which is a designated Important Bird Area.

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Those with greedy eyes on this prized area, wanting to turn it into agricultural wastelands through unsustainable farming methods, will have to think twice now that the Tana River Delta has been officially recognized as the world’s latest RAMSAR site, giving added protection and recognition to this fragile biodiversity hotspot.

It was learned from sources in Kigali that the government has cleared the planting of over 40 million new trees across the ‘land of a thousand hills’ during the national tree planting week, due to commence in early November.

Gardens big and small all benefit from plants rich in pollen and nectar to attract bees, hoverflies, butterflies, moths and birds.

Wildlife conservation groups and those involved in private conservancies in Kenya, crucially important to maintaining biodiversity and supporting government policies of adding private land for the purpose of protecting threatened species like rhinos, are bracing for the worst come 2012, as new tax demands appear on the horizon.

An international elephant conference has been convened to discuss the plight, and future on the continent of Africa, of the remaining elephant herds, which are increasingly endangered and pushed into ever smaller habitats with ancient migration routes being cut off by fenced farms, ranched and housing to cater for massively expanded populations.

(The entrance of the Bamburi based Haller Park north of Mombasa) Mombasas Haller Park has since its inception in the late 1970s, when the Bamburi Cement quarries looked like moonscapes along the Mombasa Bamburi road, extensive spaces bare of any vegetation at all, been transformed into a mini garden of Eden and a habitat for some 240 species of birds, over a dozen large mammals, reptiles and even an active Tilapia fish farm, which helps to financially sustain the growing operation of the park while catfish, lungfish and tilapia are also found in the extensive interconnected pond system which traverses the park.

When figures became available yesterday, that Uganda had once again lost nearly 90.000 hectares of forest cover to converted agricultural land and for producing charcoal, environmentalists were shocked and saddened, some of them clearly too stunned to comment even.

Alarming figures have emerged from research carried out in the Eastern Congo, a region savaged by civil war and divided by militia ruled fiefdoms, denying the central government in Kinshasa full control or a part of the country rich in natural resources, both in the ground as well as above.

Information was received from a source in Juba, the capital of South Sudan that a new bat species was discovered recently in the country and was subsequently named ‘Niumbaha Superba’.

Herbs can be grown in pots located conveniently near the kitchen door or in the vegetable garden but then they will be lost from general view. Many herbs look really good in the garden in amongst the other plants, in the borders and beside garden paths.

A recent article in the Royal Horticultural Society’s magazine “The Garden” gives details of a study carried out in England over a 30 year period of all the species in a small garden in England. The details are quite startling and show the tremendous importance of gardens in maintaining the species biodiversity that is so beneficial to humans – for without birds and bees and other creatures, we would not survive.

Information was confirmed overnight from sources in Nanyuki that indeed sections of the Mt. Kenya National Park, high up on the mountain, are ablaze with forest and moorland fires.

A report from researchers and scientists, released earlier this week in Tanzania, paints a gloomy picture over the future survival of the endemic red colobus monkeys of the Udzungwa Forest National Park.