Saving the Kasigau Corridor in Southeastern Kenya

The Kasigau Corridor REDD Project - Phase II is located in south-eastern Kenya, in the Marungu Sub location, Voi Division, Taita Taveta District, Coast Province, Kenya, approximately 150 kms northwest of Mombasa.

This project covers all the land of 13 private, group-owned ranches as well as the Marungu Hills community conservation area and a wildlife corridor link, totalling 419 440 acres (169,741.4 ha) of land.

Through a combination of dryland forest protection and extraordinary community sustainable development activities, this project is estimated to avoid the gross emissions of over 48 million metric tonnes of CO2e which would have been emitted due to slash and burn deforestation over the 30-year project life, or on average approximately 1,614,959 m.t. per year across the carbon pools of above- and below-ground forest biomass (forest carbon), and soil carbon.

The Project Area is home to a fantastic diversity of mammals (over 50 species of large mammals, more than 20 species of bats), birds (over 300 species) and important populations of IUCN Red List species such as Grevy’s zebra (Equus grevyi), Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus), Lion (Panthera leo) as well as over 500 African elephants (Loxidonta africana) seasonally.