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their poverty. Their capacity to respond and adapt to climate change is
thus impaired.
The local communities living around Mt. Kenya are sensitized by the
Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) on the value of conserving forests and other
forms of biodiversity. In this way, human encroachment into the forest and
Mount Kenya National Park can be reduced. On the slopes of Mt. Kenya,
a reforestation project to sequester carbon with community development
activities has been established. This project enables members who are small
scale farmers, to plant trees on their land to act as carbon sink and also to
reduce soil erosion, protecting water catchment and enhancing biodiversity.
Acknowledgements
Some of the material presented in the chapter relate directly or indirectly to
my own research experience on tourism in Kenya. However, the compilation
of a book chapter such as this one requires wide reading of bibliographic
material on the topic at issue. Therefore, quite naturally, the chapter draws
extensively on the work of many scholars and only a small proportion of
them are mentioned in the main text. I am especially grateful to Dr. Martin
Marani a colleague in the Department of Geography and Environmental
Studies of the University of Nairobi for his tireless effort and time to read
through the manuscript and make very valuable comments. The author
and Publishers are grateful to Chris 73/Wikimedia Commons (for Plate
8.1 under GNU Free Documentation Licence) and Mrs. Esther W. Makunyi
(Plate 8.2). The authors of Figs. 8.1-8.3 are also duly acknowledged. They
are: Beniston M. and Fox, D.A. 1996. Figure 8.1; Hastenrath S. and Kruss,
P.D. 1992. Figure 8.2; Bourdeau, P. 2009. Figure 8.3.
Plate 8.2.
Shipton's Camp used as Base for Climbing Mt. Kenya (Source: Makunyi 2010, Plate
2, pg. 20.
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