-3.223°, 40.100° Malindi Airport

Taking on the Chongololo
(Maritime Bear vs Giant African Millipede)

by Sandra Asubila 

-3.310°, 40.017° Gede Butterfly Pavilion

"Spot the bear!"

Caught in a net with a leaf, no - A MOTH!

The Kipepeo Project. 

by Sandra Asubila

Kipepeo means butterfly in Swahili and the Butterfly Pavillion is based in the Arabuko Sokoke Forest. 

The Kipepeo Project is a community based enterprise which formed to change the local attitude towards an incentive to the conservation of the forest as well as a means to make a livelihood. The community members export around 50.000 butterfly and moth pupae around the world and the project is an example of how linking conservation and development can be a success. 

Find out more on their website www.kipepeo.org.

-3.330°, 39.878° Arabuko sokoke forest

At Gede Snake Park our bear takes a close look at a twig snake

by Sandra Asubila

Arabuko Sokoke Forest is the most intact coastal forest in East Africa and one of the last remnant indigenous forests in Kenya. The forest is threatened by the desire for land by local people. Several national and international conservation organisations are working with the Kenya Wildlife Service to protect the park.
Read more about the conservation and management project of Arabuko Sokoke Forest.

-3.216°, 40.126° Mayungu Malindi

Who will buy fish for 500 shilling?

by Sandra Asubila

Sustainable fishing guarantees there will be population of ocean and freshwater wildlife for the future.
You can read more about MaMa, the Malindi Marine Association, and their work to preserve their thousand year practice of sustainable fishing and how it also sustains their livelihood.

Other interesting reads on what actions affect...
http://www.greengrants.org/2006/01/07/kenya-local-fishermen-unite-against-environmentally-destructive-trawlers/
http://greenfishbluefish.wordpress.com/tag/mogadishu-fish-market/

-4.262°, 39.605° Marine Park Beach, Kenya

Scouring the clean beach

Past the white sand it is ruggedly blue

by Sandra Asubila

Malindi is a popular tourist destination on the Indian Ocean. 

Read what prompted the Malindi Green Town Movement (MGTM) to be formed 

to introduce sustainable, integrated urban environment planning and management. 

The biodiversity in this coastline area is what attracts tourists (both international and domestic) and the realisation that the destruction of the ecosystem will destroy the attraction has led to an upswing in eco-tourism. Waste management is taken into consideration as well as the conservation of natural and cultural heritages.