Taita Hills Wildlife Sanctuary covers approximately 28,000 acres and straddles the Southern Tsavo West National Park. As an important dispersal and migrating corridor for wildlife between Tsavo East National Park and Tsavo West National Park, it’s also an ecologically important and highly valued tourism recreational area.
Prolonged droughts over the past decade and particularly in the last two years have caused severe degradation, with the Sanctuary's management estimating that 70% of the area is characterised by soil erosion and vegetation loss.
Additionally, the Bura River within the Sancturary has been affected by siltation and subsequent loss of stream channelling, which has had a major impact on downstream forest productivity and ecological services, has suppressed tree growth and caused early tree mortality.
TUI Forest Kenya plants new trees and supports local people to build thriving livelihoods through community managed tree nurseries and the creation of forest-based tourism experiences. It includes the local planting of 40,000 native seedlings, the restoration of 242,812 m2 of forest, the involvement of 1400 people in nature-based tourism experiences and 720 local people in restoration and conservation activities.
