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86 | The Race to Save the Cloud Forests of Kenya’s Chyulu Hills

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REDD+ in Kenya
REDD+ in Kenya
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A decade ago,  the cloud forests of Kenya’s Chyulu Hills were on the brink of collapse, threatening water supplies for the Tsavo and Amboseli Plains — and for the coastal City of Mombasa, 250 kilometers away.

Then the Kenya Forestry and Wildlife Services teamed up with the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust, the Big Life Foundation, the Sheldrake Wildlife Trust, Conservation International, and, most importantly, grazing collectives, called “community group ranches” to launch the Chyulu Hills REDD+ Project — a thirty-year private-public partnership designed to save the hills by overhauling the rural economy. 

First in a series focused on ecological restoration in southern and central Kenya.

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