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….

The Sokoke scops owl (Otus ireneae), also Morden’s scops owl or Morden’s owlet, is a highly localized species of scops owl found in lowland forests of Kenya and Tanzania. The greatest population of this species of owl is in the Cynometra–Manilkara forest, which is less than one-third of the Sokoke Forest. It is also found…