Importance of Wetlands...

Sustainable solutions for the protection of vital natural resources.

Wetlands are among the most diverse and productive ecosystems. They provide essential services and supply all our fresh water. Wetlands are land areas that are saturated or flooded with water either permanently or seasonally. Inland wetlands include marshes, ponds, lakes, fens, rivers, floodplains, and swamps. Coastal wetlands include saltwater marshes, estuaries, mangroves, lagoons and even coral reefs. Fishponds, rice paddies, and saltpans are human-made wetlands.

Wetlands are vital for human survival. They are among the world’s most productive environments; cradles of biological diversity that provide the water and productivity upon which countless species of plants and animals depend for survival. Wetlands are indispensable for the countless benefits or “ecosystem services” that they provide humanity, ranging from freshwater supply, food and building materials, and biodiversity, to flood control, groundwater recharge, and climate change mitigation.

Water and wetlands are connected in an inseparable co-existence that is vital to life, our wellbeing and the health of our planet.

We are facing a growing freshwater crisis that threatens people and our planet. We use more freshwater than nature can replenish and we are destroying the ecosystem that water and all life depend on most – wetlands.

Kikao Eco-Wild Conservation Initiative (K.E.W.C.I) calls for the protection and revival of ecosystems for the benefit of people, wildlife and nature. It aims to halt the degradation of ecosystems, and restore them to achieve global goals. 

Local communities are key stakeholders in sustainable solutions for the protection of vital natural resources. We recognize local communities as key players in the fight to better plan management techniques for our natural resources protection.

Only with healthy ecosystems, such as wetlands, can we enhance people’s livelihoods, restore wild habitats, counteract climate change, and stop the collapse of biodiversity.

#StrengtheningActionsforNatureConservation

Your New Year’s Resolutions Can Also Help Conserve The Environment

Personal New Year’s resolutions can help make the environment, natural habitats and forest cover better too... Protecting public spaces, joining in on public discussions, taking part conservation initiatives and activities are all things people can do to contribute to better Ecosystems and better Counties.

Things you do to make your Counties better, also make our lives better and vice versa. It’s mutually beneficial! You don’t have to make sweeping changes either.

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Bin it & Green it – Roadside Dumping Campaign

The campaigns objective is to make the roadsides in Kajiado County cleaner and greener.

With the national government’s ban on the use of polythene papers and huge fines imposed for those found littering from vehicles; Kikao Eco-Wild Conservation Initiative has found it urgent and necessary to take up the challenge to stop the littering on our roadsides as a self-regulatory effort by the motorists. 

Together We Can Protect Our Natural World...

 At a time when we’re running short on nature, we need to do everything we can to protect it. The call of a bird in the wild or the rustling of an antelope in the brush is priceless - Worth far more than the minerals we could extract or the high-rise building we could develop.

We need to protect our natural world, and that starts with stopping these reckless attacks on species and habitats. We can accomplish all of this by convincing our fellow citizens that we should no longer tolerate sacrificing nature for a little more oil, timber or other economic productions.

We at the Kikao Eco-Wild Conservation Initiative are running campaigns to defend and promote more Wild-Habitats (Environmental Defense - Flora) and Wildlife (Protection of Endangered Species - Fauna).

Environmental Conservation is Survival

Dear friends, we need to conserve our NATURAL RESOURCES, like water, forests, air and other resources like oil, energy.  If we do not do so globally, we are in for a terrible future for our later generations.

Creating a Future of Forests

Do we really know why we should all strive to increase and maintain the forests in our country?