Dakatcha Woodland

Dakatcha Woodland KBA is critical forest for the conservation of 49 IUCN Red Listed species
(9 birds, 5 mammals, and 35 plants). It is currently being cleared for
charcoal and agriculture at an alarming rate. A Rocha Kenya is
purchasing land to create a Nature Reserve and safeguard this indigenous
forest and its threatened wildlife.

Africa’s smallest owl, the
Sokoke Scops Owl occurs only in three places in the world – one of them
being a 10 x 4 km patch of forest in the Dakatcha Woodland Key
Biodiversity Area.

But this forest is unprotected and as a result
is being cut down for charcoal, timber and pineapple plantations. We are
buying land to save the forest from being destroyed and create the A
Rocha Dakatcha Nature Reserve.