Featured image: Production risk due to lack of rainfall in Marsabit District
Now available for free downloads: digitized copies of the 22 reports (3 volumes) comprising the Range Management Handbook of Kenya.
For information on rangeland resources, climatology, livestock diseases, constraints facing range development, and much more, go to the sidebar and click on Range Management Handbook of Kenya. Alternatively, click on storiesofeastafrica.com/range-management-handbook-of-kenya/
Some examples of newly available reports / maps appear below.
District-wide maps provide inventories of natural resources and their ecological status
Environmental degradation is ongoing in the rangelands of East Africa. This guide shows how to identify and monitor soil erosion in arid and semi-arid lands.
Camels, which typify arid rangelands, have, in recent years, also become a presence in semi-arid rangelands. See this report for tips on how to manage them.
What a fantastic collection to have available to all!!!
Thanks, Tami.
Dennis, I wanted to let you know that my friend, Dr. Chris Thouless, who lives on Borana Conservancy, was thrilled to see this. I forwarded it to him. He says that people still hand old photocopied pages around and this will be very welcome!! He said to thank you on behalf of the folks who use these in Kenya.
I also wanted to let you know that Iain Douglass-Hamilton is quite ill. He was attacked by bees and hasn’t been able to fully recover since then.
Finally, I wanted to let you know that I created a website, accidentalconservationist.org, of my photos and you have inspired me to begin to write about some of my experiences. I’ve only written to articles thus far, but hopefully more to come.
Ted
Ted,
Except for Iain’s situation, you bring good news. He likes “pushing the envelope,” danger-wise; maybe he did it again. Hopefully, he will eventually recover, just like he’s done from previous scrapes (Cathy remembers him recuperating in Arusha hospital after an incident with a rhino—she was a Peace Corps nurse there.)
I’m really happy with the interest shown in the Range Management Handbook of Kenya: it’s way more than I expected. That Chris Thouless is on the Borana Conservancy is good news because the Northern Rangeland Trust seems to be a major player in range management activities on communal rangelands. Until now, I’ve been unable to establish contact with anyone there.
Congratulations on your professional-looking website—well done! Excellent photos and interesting articles. I look forward to more of both.
Dennis