Tag: Kenya

Chester Zoo targets mobile gamers to promote conservation of endangered species

Good News Notes: “Chester Zoo launches new augmented reality mobile game that transforms players’ worlds into a jungle – enabling them to experience what it’s like to track real apes and carry out conservation challenges, all from their smartphones. Players join a team of wildlife scientists and help them protect the last wild spaces on…

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Kenya pollution: How air sensors are helping people fight pollution

 Good News Notes: “It was his way of keeping out the stench and polluted air in Syokimau, a neighbourhood close to Kenya’s capital, Nairobi.” “The pollution was affecting the health of his two children.” “We decided enough was enough. We couldn’t take it in any more,” he told the BBC. View the whole story here:…

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Kenyan scientist builds with bottles to beat plastic pollution

Good News Notes: “Hope Mwanake understands the plastic pollution crisis facing Kenya better than most.” “An environmental scientist who ran a waste collection service in Kenya’s central town of Gilgil, she witnessed first hand the mountains of plastic buckets, bottles and jerry cans discarded by residents, hotels, shops and schools.” “Along with business partner and…

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kenya installs first solar water farm turning ocean water into drinking water

Good News Notes: “Non-governmental organization ‘givepower’ has built its first solar water farm in kenya, turning the region’s saltwater into clean and sustainable drinking water. the farm uses a filtrating system that desalinates the brackish liquid to produce enough water for 35,000 people every day.” “The farm is located in Kiunga, Kenya, a small fishing…

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