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Profit for Good: Carbon Credits Bring Clean Water to Rural Kenya

2:32 pm in africa, Business & Politics, carbon emissions, carbon offsets, deforestation, drinking water, kenya by TreeHugger

LifeStraw Family demo photo Photo: Rachel Cernansky I spent part of last month walking from home to home in Kagamega, Kenya, a mostly-rural region known for one of the last remaining tracts of the Congolese forest belt. It is not dissimilar to so much of the developing world, however, in its lack of access to clean water, which is available to about 15 percent of homes in rural areas, according to Francis Odhiambo, Provincial Public Health Officer for the region. I was in Kakamega with the Carbon for Water campaign, run by Vestergaard Frandsen, the company behind the LifeStraw water filter and o...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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U.S.-Made Pesticide Continues to Kill Off Lions in Kenya

1:07 pm in africa, animals, endangered species, kenya, pesticides, Travel & Nature by TreeHugger

lion pesticide photo Image: fortherock via flickr Despite people knowing for years that carbofuran, a pesticide also known as furadan, has been devastating the lion population in Kenya, and despite continued calls to ban the pesticide, it continues to be used—or more accurately, misused, to intentionally poison lions. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Kenya Supersizes Wildlife Corridors to Provide Safe Passage for Elephants

8:00 am in animals, conservation, kenya, Travel & Nature by TreeHugger

african elephants kenya photo Elephants in Kenya. Photo: Nicolas Barcet / Creative Commons. Compared to planting "bee roads" or building tunnels for toads, the task conservation groups took on in Kenya was a gargantuan one: Creating Africa's first dedicated elephant underpass, part of a 14-kilometer-long wildlife corridor for the world's largest land animals....Read the full story on TreeHugger

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