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Nairobi is rapidly losing its green spaces: this could open the door to more diseases

Hundreds of trees have been felled along Nairobi’s Uhuru and Waiyaki highways to make space for a new expressway. CELINE CLERY/AFP via Getty Images Eric Fèvre , University of Liverpool and James Hassell , Yale University There’s been widespread concern in Kenya over the shrinking of green spaces in...

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One Health Centre in Africa

One Health Research, Education and Outreach Centre in Africa (Logo designed by ILRI/CKM) . The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) has established a One Health Centre in Africa (OHRECA) to enhance the health of people, animals and their shared environment in the continent. Funded by...

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ILRI’s Kapiti Research Station to serve as conservancy and critical wildlife corridor for Nairobi National Park

ILRI’s Kapiti Research Station (photo credit: ILRI/Jake Meyers). ‘Nairobi National Park wildlife ecosystem has more than doubled its land size to 78,000 acres after two institutions agreed to integrate their land with the wildlife conservancy. On Thursday, 24 Sep 2020, the Kapiti Research Station...

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Wildlife markets in the pandemic: Prohibit or preserve them? Ban or promote them?

Pork sold in a wet market in Cambodia (photo credit: ILRI/David Aronson). ILRI and UN experts say preserve and protect the world’s ‘informal markets’ AND invest and enhance these markets, which provide billions of people with food and incomes. An opinion piece by ILRI scientist Kristina Roesel and...

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#AntimicrobialResistance through the eyes of the journalists in Kenya

Participants in the CGIAR Antimicrobial Resistance Hub media sensitization activity held on 15 November 2019 at ILRI Nairobi, Kenya (photo credit: ILRI/Paul Karaimu). In the lead up to the World Antibiotic Awareness Week 2019 ( #WAAW2019 ), which is celebrated every year in November, the CGIAR AMR...

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Scientists test an experimental vaccine against malignant catarrhal fever at ILRI’s Kapiti Research Station

Livestock grazing at the Kapiti Research Station (photo credit: ILRI/Paul Karaimu). The annual migration of wildebeest between the Serengeti and Maasai Mara parks in Tanzania and Kenya is one of the seven new wonders of the world. Thousands of tourists from all over the world gather to see this...

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New study finds that urban wildlife may be a significant vector for antimicrobial resistant bacteria

Researchers entering sampling data (photo credit: Zoonoses and Emerging Diseases). In the cities of developing nations, where unregulated antibiotic use is common and livestock jostle with people amid often unsanitary conditions, scientists have found a potentially troubling vector for the...

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ILRI’s Kapiti livestock research station—and Kenyan and global public goods—imperiled by land grabs in Kenya

Over the past several weeks, illegal attempts to grab land have escalated at Kapiti Plains Estate (now known as Kapiti research station), located about 60 km southeast of Nairobi along Mombasa Road, in Kenya’s Machakos County. Members of groups involved in the illegal sales have started trespassing...