Tag: Forest Conservation

• Exploring the Ngong Road Forest

  

  A few years ago, a good friend of mine told me a story that has stuck with me. He was driving around town with his buddies one evening, with a chocolate cake from Java on the backseat. They hit traffic on Ngong Road, and decided to take the loop behind Jamhuri Park. It was getting…

  Jan Fox

  16/08/2020

  Travel

  Cycling, Forest, Forest Conservation, Karen, kenya, Mountain Biking, Nairobi, Ngong Forest, Ngong Road Forest Sanctuary, Recent

• A Guidebook to the People’s Forest

  

  ‘It seems nothing short of miraculous, looking back, that the Karura Forest Reserve still exists, given the pressures it faced during the latter half of the 20th Century.’ This is the opening to a chapter in the Karura visitors’ guide, published in October 2019. It goes on to describe these pressures in detail – destructive…

  Jan Fox

  26/07/2020

  Travel

  Forest, Forest Conservation, Karura Forest, kenya, Nairobi, Recent, Wangari Maathai