DRY GRAZING GROUNDS AT MAIELLA - NAIVASHA

Maiella in Naivasha

DUNG BEETLE

DUNG BEETLE

By Wanyua Mary

Dung bettle is a soil organism that is visible to humans and very beneficial to the soil's health. The beetle live and eats animal dung.  Mostly, the beetle is brown or black in colour.

The beetle is able to move a dung ball twice or even thrice its size with ease. Due to its activities in the cowpat, the beetle is a valiable soil restoration tool as it increases water infiltration, organic matters, aerates the soils, removes non point source pollution, and helps to control pest insects.

Some beetles are very swift in dim light while others in broad day light hence they have corresponding changes in their eyes to suit different light niches.

We need to ask for more

WE NEED TO ASK FOR MORE

 By Wanyua Mary

Every time I glimpse at the news headlines I am completely disappointed. It’s amazing how politicians are convincing Kenyan by making empty promises. We need to learn from our past and decide to vote for political leader who will make Kenya admired by the world. We have to vote for leaders who will move Kenya from being a third world to a developed country. It’s time we believed in ourselves and took the initiative to make Kenya a legacy to our generations.

It’s high time we started caring about what is happening in Kenya and more so believe that we have the power to change our current situation. Giving up is not the solution. We need to stand up strong and vote for leaders with integrity and who have shown before that they have faith in Kenya and more so in themselves to bring the change we hope for.

Most politicians are promising to end unemployment, insecurity, road carnage, our still so low life expectancy, poor housing among others.  Amazingly, we believe that they will do all that.  Haven’t we had the same song before? Its time dear Kenyans that we started asking our politicians how they intend to change our nation as they say.

Let us not vote for the most charismatic family or the one we share the most genetic ties with. Judge an individual’s policies before voting them in or be prepared to live with the repercussions.

Amazingly productive maize plant in Aberdare highlands. PHOTO: Wanyua Mary

Beauty within our borders

Water falls at Paradise lost .PHOTO: Mary Mwangi

PHOTO: Mary Mwangi

Entrance to Paradise Lost Caves.

PHOTO: Mary Mwangi

Saving water is securing our future

Saving water is securing our future

 Story By Wanyua Mary.

Every day, millions of people across a spacious swathe of Kenya struggle to get access to clean and safe drinking water. Lack of which continues to claim the lives of millions of people every year while condemning millions more to a life of poor health and diminished prospect.

There is no resource more precious than water. However, this is the most misused, abused, misallocated, and misunderstood resource in Kenya. Safe drinking water, healthy and intact natural ecosystems, and a stable food supply are a few of the things at stake as our water supply is put under greater and greater stress.

Many people have had water-saving etiquette pumped into them time and again, so hopefully we can make a good case for conserving our water through everyday water-saving strategies as well as putting in place long term measures that will ensure that Kenya will never go dry.

Let’s not wait to be educated by our government and or local organization but lets take the initiative of seeking the solutions facing us. If every Kenyan can learn how to use water sustainably as well as take the initiative of conserving and protecting our catchments, lack of water can be history.

As we have all witnessed, many people still don’t value our catchments hence the increased cases of forest fires. Unless strict measures are put in place our forest, wildlife and water will all be a done deal condemning us to a life of misery.

As we celebrate the World Water Day, I urge all Kenyans to mark this day by planting an indigenous tree as an effort to compensate for the ones lost by the Mt. Kenya inferno.

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