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

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.

Kajiado County's Ecosystem

 

Urbanisation and development continues to put Kajiado's ecosystem in distress. 

The Kajiado County's Ecosystem – where all living organisms interact with each other and their environment – has experienced some dramatic changes since the late 19th century. The accounts of early writers paint a picture of a spectacular ecosystem teeming with diverse resident and migratory wildlife. Records describe abundant wildebeest that migrated seasonally with other wildlife species, livestock and pastoralists.

Preserving Kajiado's Last Eden

 

Preservation of Kajiado's Last Eden

Kikao Eco-Wild Conservation Initiative is a revolutionary idea that was born from passion, loyalty, and persistence to face environmental and wildlife habitats restoration challenges within Kajiado County. KEWCI is not just a means to facilitate the sensitization of the Wildlife Habitat restoration, but a hunger to strive for solutions, to resolve escalating human wildlife conflict, to encourage the contribution of communities and inspire change.