Over one million tourists have visited Kenya in 2011.because of the Al- Shabaab attacks and the economic crisis in Europe, the country has recorded 1,039,852 visitors by the end of October which is a 16% increase from the same time in 2010 where 896,228 visitors were received. The tourism industry earnings have been Sh81.9 billion […]
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The plan for starting a baseline survey in Rufiji delta by World Wildlife Fund for Nature that will help residents to get paid through REDD has been affected because they have been refused by Mangrove Management Project officials to burn down the farm huts and cutting down the coconut trees. United Nations compensates communities for […]
Bwindi National Park has been voted Africa’s number one birding site over South Africa’s well-known Kruger National Park and Cape Town’s ocean shores early this year by the African Bird club.Murchision Falls National Park carried the ninth place among the top 10 birding sites in the continent. In October 2011 Virunga volcanoes took the number […]
Nairobi National Park has expanded by 100 hectares of land because John Keen and his family want Kenya Wildlife Service can control, manage and administer their inherited land as part of the park. The park has been shortened in with important migration routes across the Athi plains leaving the important DNA exchange through migratory arrivals […]
A memorial site has been opened at the Kenya Wildlife service at the entrance of Nairobi National Park where all names of those that died during conservation and anti poaching operations have been listed. This is to show poachers that those who die during the fight are remembered and the organization will continue with the […]
A five star hotel that belongs to Serena Group has been stopped by the government from being constructed at the edge of Volcanoes National Park because they think it will affect the endangered mountain gorillas. The investor has been given an alternative land 800 meters from the park for conservation purposes. The construction of the […]
The Heritage minister William Ole Ntimama has supported the electronic system that has been put at Masai Mara game reserve gates for collecting revenue because it will reduce corruption during the process. He said those in charge of the demonstrations that have been taking place at the gates of the park should be arrested because […]
The assistant minister for roads Lee Kinyanjui has warned the passengers and motorists to take full responsibility during the festive season because it is a period where drivers are more careless. The traffic police, city Council of Nairobi and Kenya Urban Roads Authority set up a road safety operation with an aim of letting the […]
The first female pygmy hippo that has died at the Nairobi Safari Walk was donated by former Liberian President, the late William Tubman in the 1970s. The hippo has died from pneumonia at 29 years and according to the reports that have been prepared by Kenya Wildlife Service Veterinarian Dr Edward Kariuki, the animal might […]
The number of visitors from Turkey will increase next year because the Turkish government has decided to support Tanzania’s tourism sector. More than 10,000 visitors from Turkey have visited Tanzania in the previous years and the number will increase to 200,000 in the coming next years. The Turkish Ambassador Dr. Sander Gurbuz said he has […]