The Sengwer are indigenous people who live in the Embobut forest in the Cherangani Hills in Kenya. They have lived there for time immemorial. But since British colonial rule, the Sengwer have been evicted from their homes. From 2007 to 2013, the World Bank funded the Kenya Forest Service but did nothing to support the…
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Conservation violence: More evictions of the Sengwer in the Embobut Forest, Kenya
On 2 April 2017, Kenya Forest Service guards violently attacked Elias Kimaiyo, a Sengwer community leader. The Forest Guards were burning houses belonging to the Sengwer. Kimaiyo was taking photographs.
Honey at the Top: A film about the Sengwer forest people in the Cherangani Hills, Kenya
Honey at the Top is a film by Dean Puckett, a UK-based documentary film maker. At the end of 2014, Puckett travelled to the Cherangani Hills in Western Kenya. He filmed and documented the lives of the Sengwer people.
Kenya: The impact of evictions from the Embobut forest on Sengwer indigenous women
Since the 1960s, the Sengwer indigenous people living in the Embobut forest have been evicted many times. In recent years, the evictions have intensified.
The Ogiek indigenous people in Kenya were evicted and their homes burnt. In the name of conservation
By Chris Lang In June 2016, 50 armed guards from the Kenya Forest Service burned homes belonging to Ogiek indigenous people living in the forests of Chepkitale, Mount Elgon. The Ogiek have lived in Kenya’s Mau forest for hundreds of years. Some of them live in the deep forest and live from hunting and gathering….