This sign greets everyone at the main gate to the Kenya Forest Service office in Nairobi. It is accompanied by an anonymous ‘suggestion box’ where anyone can describe incidents of corruption or impropriety and they are expected to get attention. A sign may not change a culture, but it is at least a beginning!

Adult Masai Giraffe with the Nairobi city skyline in the background. It was one of a herd of 18 giraffes – the biggest herd of giraffes Keegan had ever seen. He could hear them chewing!

Nature’s confusing camouflage, where does one zebra end and the other start?

Wetland area in Nairobi National Park. This area is frequented by hippo and is less than 1000 meters from an apartment complex.

A very shy black Rhino! Keegan saw him from about 400 meters. The second he stopped to look, this rhino went for the cover of nearby bushes and did not come out again.

Dancing Sifaka Lemurs at a lemur sanctuary near Antananarivo, Madagascar. They bound about with an energy and precision that is astounding and inspiring!

First stages of mining activity in Madagascar. Forests are cleared for access to subsurface minerals. Trees are hand-felled at a slow daily rate to encourage biodiversity to relocate. Wood is then given to the communities that control the area. It is a gentle approach, but the outcome is still a destroyed forest.

Uneven aged, native species restoration trials in the highlands of Central Madagascar. Looking to rehabilitate a large deforestation event has led to field trials of various tree and grass species, as well as ‘foster ecosystem habitats’ for amphibians and reptiles. The lava rock pile is home to hand-transplanted reptiles and native epiphytes.

Village in the central highlands of Madagascar, as seen from the foundations of their new forest tree nursery. The community is part of a stakeholder engagement activity that could play a role in REDD+.