Hello – I have been working on a series of posters showcasing and celebrating the diversity of East African bees as part of a book on bees that I am putting together. I recently completed a poster on the ‘Bees of Turkana’. One might think that Turkana as a hot, arid environment does not have … Read more
Dear All Greetings – have been travelling with limited email access (and time!). A few weeks ago I was in northern Kenya at the Turkana Basin Institute looking at bees. A yellow-flowered legume, Crotolaria, was blooming in one site near the river and it was covered in some of the most amazing bees… Here are … Read more
Dear All Many greetings. I have been up in the hot and dusty reaches of Turkana in northern Kenya. Most people only hear about this region as a place of drought and suffering. Turkana is also a beautiful, biodiversity-rich and potentially productive place… I recently visited a pilot farming project in a remote area south … Read more