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African Tourism Board President Alain St.Ange pays tribute to Colin Church of Kenya Black Rhino Aberdare Park project
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Alain St.Ange, the President of the African Tourism Board, has expressed sadness at the passing of Colin Church of Kenya.
Colin Church, one of East Africa’s renowned conservationists, died at the age of 81.
He was a public advocate for the Black Rhino serving as the Chairman of the Rhino Ark Charitable Trust.
Church will also be remembered for the completion of the 250-mile-long electric fence project surrounding the mountain range in Kenya to keep out poachers.
“I have had the pleasure and honor of knowing Colin Church personally when his public relations office, Church Orr & Associates, represented Seychelles in Kenya and in the whole of East Africa.
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Colin Church, Kenya PR executive who oversaw the protection of black rhino and other rarities in the Aberdare park – obituary
A 250-mile-long electrified fence was installed surrounding the Aberdare mountain range, protecting elephants, leopards and antelopes
Colin Church planting a post in Mau Eburu
Colin Church, who has died aged 81, was a Kenyan public relations executive who devoted the latter part of life to protecting his country’s wildlife and mountain forests, becoming one of East Africa’s most renowned conservationists.
From 2002 to 2012 he served as the chairman of Rhino Ark Charitable Trust, a charity dedicated to combating the rampant poaching of black rhinos in central Kenya’s Aberdare National Park. He oversaw the completion, in 2009, of an 250-mile-long electrified fence surrounding the mountain range.
History, farms, forest in Happy Valley hike
Friday April 09 2021
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Further along the trail we came to the indigenous forest area. Instantly, we noticed greater variety of native trees and thick underbrush.
Birds and butterflies fly around, and there are little streams and wetlands. Colobus monkeys grunt and leap through the canopy.
Clearly the hard forest boundary not only protects farmers and crops, but also enables regeneration of the forest.
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Since our lives were turned upside down and movements hindered by Covid-19, I chanced a visit to the lush highlands by the Aberdares Mountain range.
A small group of us spent a weekend at the Kipipiri Campsites, located three hours from Nairobi, in the saddle between the northern Aberdare and Mt Kipipiri. Campsite owner Alnavaz Amlani, was on hand to greet us when we arrived in the mid-afternoon.