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Coral reef restoration ranger Dosa Mshenga Mchambi works at an artificial reef structure in the Indian ocean at Shimoni, Kenya on June 13, 2022. Officials are meeting in Kigali, Rwanda, as part of the continent's first ever Africa Protected Areas Congress in a bid to expand the protection of land and marine wildlife, despite little funding and many existing conservation areas in the region being of low quality. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga, File)

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Africa’s wildlife parks managers meet to boost conservation
By WANJOHI KABUKURU - Associated Press
Tue,07/19/22-4:53AM , 177 Reads
MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — Officials are meeting in Kigali in Rwanda this week as part of the continent's first-ever Africa Protected Areas Congress in a bid to expand the preservation of land and marine wildlife, despite little funding and the low quality of many existing conservation areas in the region.
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Vendors and fish mongers arrive on an incoming fishing boat at the Gazi Bay with their overnight catch in Kwale county, Kenya on Sunday, June 12, 2022. Countries on Africa's west coast are increasingly turning to climate funding initiatives to innovative financing models to close the large climate financing gaps currently existing in the continent to boost livelihoods of oceanside communities, aid biodiversity recovery responses and enhance take climate action. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

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Africa looks to private sector to fund ocean climate action
By WANJOHI KABUKURU - Associated Press
Wed,07/13/22-1:01AM , 208 Reads
MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — Countries on Africa's west coast are increasingly turning to climate funding initiatives to boost livelihoods of oceanside communities, aid biodiversity and take climate action.
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Fishermen swim out from an incoming boat at a berth, some with their overnight catch in Kwale county, Gazi Bay, Kenya on Sunday, June 12, 2022. Artisanal fisheries on Kenya's coast say climate change, overfishing by large foreign vessels and a lack of other job opportunities for coastal communities is draining the Indian Ocean of its yellowfin tuna stocks. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

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Tuna catch dries up for Kenya's local fisherfolk
By WANJOHI KABUKURU - Associated Press
Wed,07/06/22-10:04PM , 221 Reads
VANGA, Kenya (AP) — “Tuna is not for everyone,” lamented 65-year-old Chapoka Miongo, a handline fisher on Kenya’s south coast, from his dugout canoe.
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Coral reef restoration ranger Yatin Patel measures an artificial reef structure in the Indian Ocean near Shimoni, Kenya on Monday, June 13, 2022. The marine area off the coast of Kenya at Wasini Island, jointly managed by a foundation and the island's community, has been planting over 8,000 corals a year since early 2010s and placed about 800 artificial reef structures in the channel in a bid to restore Wasini's coral gardens. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

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To combat coral bleaching, Kenya turns to reef nurseries
By WANJOHI KABUKURU - Associated Press
Sun,06/26/22-10:01PM , 194 Reads
WASINI, Kenya (AP) — Minutes away from the Kenyan mainland, the densely forested island of Wasini is one of several starting lines for coral reef restoration efforts in the western Indian Ocean.
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