February • 2022
Kang-Chun is responsive, patient and easy to work with.
Nairobi, Kenya
8 reviews$150 - $2000 / Day
Request Quoteenvironmental photojournalist focusing on community based natural resource management, traditional ecological knowledge, and China-African relations.
February • 2022
Kang-Chun is responsive, patient and easy to work with.
January • 2022
Kang-Chun is responsive and a good researcher.
The tension between nature and modern development is being played out in Kenya.
Mangroves are keystones of coastal ecosystems, protecting shorelines from erosion, providing habitat for fish and other marine life, and storing large amounts of carbon. These coastal forests are vital to local communities who have long relied on them for things like food, fuel, and construction materials. Kenya has lost half of its mangrove forests in the past 50 years to a combination of factors, including overexploitation by locals with limited livelihood options. A variety of conservation efforts in and around the southern city of Mombasa emphasize involving communities in reducing pressure on these coastal forests.
Swamps are often thought of as desolate wastelands. Yet they are rich environments teeming with life – and vanishing quickly. Around the world, wetlands are disappearing three times faster than forests from both climate change and development. Their transformation threatens not only plants and animals, but also the people who call wetlands home.
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