Sections of Uhuru Park will be hived off to "expand Uhuru Highway".
Parts of Karura Forest will be hived off "to plant tree seedlings and build rangers' accommodation units".
Parts of Nairobi National Park will be hived off "to construct parking yards for the new Bomas International Convention Centre".
Sections of Ngong Forest are being cut down for "the construction of the Ngong-Riruta rail line and an international resort and casino".
Practically every green and gazetted area within the Nairobi Metropolitan area is being targeted.
And this is place where scrutiny is highest.
Can you imagine what is happening in gazetted areas in the Rift Valley.
When pastoralists are in power, every green space is either pasture for "wega ngombe wagule yiote" or merely something to degazette, cut down and build some ugly concrete structure.
Scarcity mentality at birth.
Voyager 1 is 24 billion kilometers from Earth.
It communicates with us using a 23-watt transmitter.
Less than a refrigerator light bulb.
The signal takes 22 hours to reach us, traveling at the speed of light.
By the time it arrives, it's 20 billion times weaker than the power of a digital watch battery.
NASA's Deep Space Network picks it up using 70-meter dish antennas cooled to near absolute zero to reduce electronic noise.
The engineering required to hear a 23-watt signal from 24 billion km away is arguably more impressive than the spacecraft itself.
Launched 1977.
Still transmitting.
Still being heard.
We built something that works perfectly, 47 years later, in conditions no one has ever tested in.
That's what engineering for the long term looks like.
I recently took this photo of a family of elephants only meters outside Meru Town. If they clear the forest to make way for a State Lodge, what will they do with the elephants? Shoot them?
@JabarliB37177@TiskTusk Mugambi is in Kikuyu too, specifically Nyeri. In Murang'a it's Muthambi. Then there are names like Kinyua, Ngugi, Kariuki, Mukami, Muriuki, Mukami, Muthoni etc. We've problems telling the difference among us and you think an outsider will have it easy?
The Sudanese RSF soldiers cruising through Benshangul Gumuz region, 45 km inside Ethiopian border. There are already so many armed groups in Ethiopia, now we have imported at least three more from Sudan/ South Sudan.