In collaboration with the African Wildlife Foundation and Taita Taveta Conservancies Association, a project on fire management in Kenya, led by PhD student Amos Chege Muthiuru, Dr Adriana Ford and Prof James Millington has been featured in multiple news outlets.
The first stage of the project was workshop (May 2025) with Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLC) and wildlife managers, to facilitate knowledge sharing between participants and collect and collate information on IPLC knowledges and fire practices and the effectiveness of current fire management.
The below clip is from KTN news (Kenyan national TV).
Other media coverage below:
Tsavo Media Network (video)- Amos Chege – Scientist explains how wildfires can be used to curb climate change in protected areas
Tsavo Media Network (video) James Millington – Introducing integrated fire management system in protected areas.
Daily Nation How controlled fires could save Tsavo ecosystem
The Standard – Scientists Plans to ‘fight fire with fire’ to curb wildfires
The project is funded by a KCL ESRC IAA grant, while travel was supported through the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society.
