At 5,199 m, Mount Kenya is the second highest peak in Africa. It is an ancient extinct volcano, which during its period of activity (3.1-2.6 million years ago) is thought to have risen to 6,500 m.

THARAKA NITHI, Kenya (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Logging in the Mount Kenya National Park has set a group of politicians against a local community in a dispute over land rights involving ...

A logger uses a power saw to harvest timber from a mature tree inside Kabaru forest which covers 13,349 acres. A section of the residents blame the Kenya Forest Services for their greed in ...

The volunteer members of the Chehe Community Forest Association are playing an active role in protecting forests on the southwestern slopes of Mount Kenya. Despite this, 20% of the Afromontane forests ...

The critically endangered mountain bongo antelope and the black rhino will soon return to the Mount Kenya Forest Reserve as part of a groundbreaking public-private conservation initiative. Over the ...

Rare images of Kenya’s elusive bongo offer fresh hope for a species unseen in over five years.

The mountain bongo is being reintroduced into the wild by conservationists to increase the number of the rare antelope that are indigenous to Kenya’s forests.

Mount Kenya Forest Reserve suffered major mismanagement while under the control of President Daniel arap Moi (Kenya’s second president) in the 1990s when the forest was parceled so that huge swaths of ...

International researchers have described a new species of forest toad from Mount Kenya. Working with a single specimen collected eight years ago, the team dates the Kenyan volcano toad’s origins back ...