A wealth of Ecosystems

Kenya owes it rich biodiversity and natural capital to a diversity of environments, fashioned by topography and episodic changes in climate and habitat. No less important are the evolution, migrations and growing impact of humans on the landscape. Kenya’s environment today is an amalgam of natural, modified and manufactured landscapes. By unEarthing the forces that shaped the habitats, plants, animals and cultures we gain a deeper understanding of the living realms that underpin the economy and society of modern Kenya.

Kenya’s modern landscape of farms, ranches, indigenous and plantation forests, natural and irrigated wetlands, national parks and rangelands, scattered villages and crowded towns cannot be understood without taking account of the growth and activity of Kenya’s people in recent decades. Neither can the nature, growth and shape of Kenya’s economy and society be understood or managed properly without taking account of its diverse environments and ecology. How efficiently and sustainably Kenya uses and maintains its biodiversity and natural capital for economic development and human wellbeing depends on our knowledge and husbandry of Kenya’s varied environments.