In 2000, the Association of Zoos and Aquariums ( AZA ) upgraded the bongo to a Species Survival Plan ( SSP ) Participant and in 2006 named the Bongo Restoration to Mount Kenya Project to its list of the Top Ten Wildlife Conservation Success Stories of the year.

Kenya Wildlife Conservancy. Like other forest ungulates, bongos are seldom seen in large groups.

The Bongo Surveillance Programme, working alongside the Kenya Wildlife Service, have recorded photos of bongos at remote salt licks in the Aberdare Forests using camera traps, and, by analyzing DNA extracted from dung, have confirmed the presence of bongo in Mount Kenya, Eburru and Mau forests.

Some hotels are built with living trees as structural elements, for example the Treehotel near Piteå, Sweden, the Costa Rica Tree House in the Gandoca-Manzanillo Wildlife Refuge, Costa Rica ; the Treetops Hotel in Aberdare National Park, Kenya ; the Ariau Towers near Manaus, Brazil, on the Rio Negro in the Amazon ; and Bayram's Tree Houses in Olympos, Turkey.

Unlike most other National Parks in Kenya the Maasai Mara National Reserve is not administered by the Kenya Wildlife Service, but by local authorities.

A pair of pygmy hippos at the Mount Kenya Wildlife Conservancy

Pair of pygmy hippos at the Mount Kenya Wildlife Conservancy

In 1989, the Prince flew as a volunteer for the African Medical Research and Education Foundation ( AMREF ) in Kenya, and in 1991 he spent a month flying for the Kenya Wildlife Service.

In 1989 Richard Leakey was appointed the head of the Wildlife Conservation and Management Department ( WMCD ) by President Daniel Arap Moi in response to the international outcry over the poaching of elephants and the impact it was having on the wildlife of Kenya.

The department was replaced by Kenya Wildlife Service ( KWS ) in 1990, and Leakey became its first chairman.

Acacia savanna, Taita Hills Wildlife Sanctuary, Kenya.

Managed and maintained by Kenya Wildlife Service.

The main current Marwell Wildlife conservation programmes include Managing biodiversity in Hampshire, Assisting Grevy's Zebra and its ecosystem, in Kenya, Supporting threatened species in Zimbabwe, and Managing the population of small vulnerable populations, and reintroducing the scimitar-horned oryx to the Sahara.

* Kenya Wildlife Service – Mount Elgon National Park

* The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, Tsavo East National Park, Nairobi, Kenya, Africa

Following Kenyan independence in 1963, hunting was banned in the park and management of Tsavo was turned over to the authority that eventually became the Kenya Wildlife Service.

* Kenya Wildlife Service page for Tsavo East National Park

: Contents: Publisher's Note ; Timeline ; Preface: ' how I Came To Write '; A Life Well Lived: An Introduction To Jim Corbett By Lord Hailey ; Section One: The Unpublished Corbett-The Night Jar's Egg ; ' one Of Us '; From My Jungle Camp ; The Rudraprayag Letters ; Corbett On The Man-Eating Leopard Of Rudraprayag ; The Making Of Corbett's My India: Correspondence With His Editors ; ' shooting ' Tigers: Corbett And The Camera ; Wildlife In The Village: An Environmental Appeal ; An Englishman In India ; Life In Kenya ; Section Two: Corbett And His Audience -' The Artlessness Of His Art '; The Man Revealed: Corbett In His Writings ; The Universal Appeal Of Jim Corbett: Letters And Reviews ; Deliverance For Rudraprayag: Reactions To The Slaying Of The Man-Eating Leopard By Corbett ; Corbett's Influence: Man-Eaters Of Kumaon And The Chindwara Court Case ; Epigraph

In January 2010, Northern Rangelands Trust ( NRT ), Kenya Wildlife Service ( KWS ) and Ishaqbini Hirola Community Conservancy ( IHCC ), was funded by the United States Fish & Wildlife Service and USAID-Kenya, to conduct a survey to estimate the remaining population of this species in its natural range.

( 2007 ) The Distribution, Abundance and Habitat Use of the Hunter's Hartebeest ( Hirola ); Beatragus hunteri ; Sclater, 1889 in Ishaqibini Community Wildlife Conservancy and Arawale National Reserve, Kenya.

After the war, he wrote a pamphlet ( with some content contributed by Padmore ), Kenya: The Land of Conflict, published by the International African Service Bureau under the imprint Panaf Service.

There is no bridge between Mombasa Island and south coast, instead the distance is served by ferries operated by the Kenya Ferry Service from Kilindini and Mtongwe to Likoni in the south coast of Mombasa.

In 1999, Abdullah Öcalan, the leader of the PKK, was captured by the Turkish Intelligence Service agents in Nairobi, Kenya, while leaving the Greek Embassy.

Fearing a hostile Turkish reaction, three Greek ministers resigned ( Foreign Minister Theodoros Pangalos, in charge of the attempt to hide Öcalan at the Greek Ambassador's residence in Kenya and to find him asylum ; Interior Minister Alekos Papadopoulos, in charge of the Greek Intelligence Service involved in the operation ; and Public Order Minister Philippos Petsalnikos, in charge of the Greek security forces which failed to stop the smuggling of Öcalan into Greece in January 1999 ).

* 1996: Stephanie Welsh, " a free-lancer, for her shocking sequence of photos, published by Newhouse News Service, of a female genital cutting rite in Kenya.

She joined Kenya Prisons Service in 1990, known for recruiting many talented athletes.

She was recruited by Kenya Prisons Service, home to the country's top women's marathon runners, in 1995 where she nurtured her running career.

He entered the Colonial Service in 1904 and served in Kenya ( formerly East African Protectorate ) from 1904 to 1927.

In 1998 East African Safari Air applied to the Kenya Government and was the first privately owned local airline to be granted designation on Bilateral Air Service Agreements to all COMESA Countries, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy, Switzerland and Germany.

In 1994, she was recruited into its athletics program by the Kenya Prisons Service.

Category: Recipients of the Distinguished Service Medal ( Kenya )

Francis Muthaura, Has been Head of Public Service & Secretary of the Cabinet, Kenya.

For her shocking sequence of photos, published by Newhouse News Service, of a female genital cutting rite in Kenya.

* 1998 – The United States embassy bombings in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya kill approximately 212 people.

Kenya's victories over Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe, among others – and a forfeit by the New Zealand team, which refused to play in Kenya because of security concerns – enabled Kenya to reach the semi-finals, the best result by an associate.

* 2007 – Riots erupt in Mombasa, Kenya, after Mwai Kibaki is declared the winner of the presidential election, triggering a political, economic, and humanitarian crisis.

* 1999 – Abdullah Öcalan, leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party, is arrested in Kenya.

The WHO estimated that an additional 10 – 20 babies die per 1, 000 deliveries as a result of FGM ; the estimate was based on a 2006 study conducted on 28, 393 women attending delivery wards at 28 obstetric centers in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal and Sudan.

The current Board members are: Argentina, Australia, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Brazil, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, South Korea, Mongolia, Netherlands, Niger, Pakistan, Peru, Portugal, Russian Federation, Singapore, South Africa, Tunisia, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, and Venezuela ( IAEA Board of Governors 2010 – 2011 ).

* Eastern and Southern African ( ESAF ) – Nairobi, Kenya

* 2009 – In Kenya, at least 113 people are killed and over 200 injured following an oil spillage ignition in Molo, days after a massive fire at a Nakumatt supermarket in Nairobi killed at least 25 people.

* 2000 – Off the coast of Côte d ' Ivoire, Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169.

* 1963 – Kenya gains internal self-rule ( Madaraka Day ).

* 1971 – Kenya D. Williamson, American actress, author, and screenwriter

* 1945 – Raila Odinga, Prime Minister of Kenya

Kenya became a military base for the British in the First World War ( 1914 – 1918 ), as efforts to subdue the German colony to the south were frustrated.

The experiences gained by Africans in the war coupled with the creation of the white-settler-dominated Kenya Crown Colony, gave rise to considerable political activity in the 1920s which culminated in Archdeacon Owen's " Piny Owacho " ( Voice of the People ) movement and the " Young Kikuyu Association " ( renamed the " East African Association ") started in 1921 by Harry Thuku ( 1895 – 1970 ), which gave a sense of nationalism to many Kikuyu and advocated civil disobedience.

In the Second World War ( 1939 – 45 ) Kenya became an important British military base for successful campaigns against Italy in the Italian Somaliland and Ethiopia.

44 Issue 4, pp 371 – 388 ; argues that the chiefs ' tyranny in early colonial Kenya had its roots in the British administrative style since the Government needed strong-handed local leaders to enforce its unpopular laws and regulations.

The rift runs north – south from Lake Turkana in the north south past Mount Kenya and Lake Magadi and on to Lake Natron and Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.

* 2007 – All 114 aboard Kenya Airways Flight 507 die when the pilots lose control of the plane and it crashes in Douala, Cameroon.

* National Order of Côte d ' Ivoire and also the Order of the Golden Heart of Kenya – Government of Kenya

* 1998 – A court in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan declares accused terrorist Osama bin Laden " a man without a sin " in regard to the 1998 U. S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.

* 2002 – Suicide bombers blow up an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya ; their colleagues fail in their attempt to bring down Arkia Israel Airlines Flight 582 with surface-to-air-missiles.