Kenya

Shot in the Dark

Africa’s black leopards are shrouded in mystery, but groundbreaking photography is bringing them to light.

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Lew Wildlife Conservancy, Kenya—© Ami Vitale
Extraordinary Animals and the People Who Love Them

The new book Beloved Beasts hacks through the undergrowth of the conservation movement in search of a clear path forward.

Margaret Nyambura Mamai, a Maasai woman, places cactus pads infested with cochineal insects into healthy (and partially infested) thickets of prickly pear plants on the Laikipia Plateau.
A Plague of Cactus

Across Kenya’s wildlife-rich Laikipia Plateau, a thorny enemy is advancing. But a tiny sap-sucking insect may help save the region’s animals and people.

Members of Pilot’s family stand at the gate of his new boma.
Lion Guardians

With human-wildlife conflicts on the rise across East Africa, Kenya’s iconic predators find some unlikely allies.

March of the Flamingos

In the harsh, hot soda lakes of East Africa, flamingos thrive, and now scientists are beginning to understand how these birds live where other species die.