David

Koskei

My name is DAVID KIBET KOSKEI from Kenya, Nakuru county, Eastern part of extensive water tower Mau forest. 

Iam a Youth leader from indigenous community, chairperson (Ogiek Youth Council), Climate change champion against activities driving carbon gases and environmental activist safeguarding the interest of Mau forest restoration and it's rivers. 

Iam a freelance journalist basing my arguments on the need to conserve the Bio-diversity especially towards the afforestation, having vast knowledge on Bio-diversity and natural resources management I have been able to push for the conservation of the Mau forest.

Iam a Kenyan journalist from indigenous community living in Mau forest, Kenya. Having the journalism skills have been

worked in community radio station based at Mau forest area, which I was running five programs a week from January 2019 upto November 2020 under which I pulled back for a school continuation and thereafter become a freelancer. Having been in radio station for two years, I was able to advocate for environmental rights, which includes taking care of rivers and water towers. Planting of trees was part of my agenda on air and physically through frequent visits to the community. I was able as well to find a tree nursery volunteered by community members and we were able to plant more than 25,000 trees between the said period. Upto now, the trees we planted was able to retain the naturality of the forest it was already destroyed. Through social media, I was able to lobby youth to campaign against throwing of plastics and washing of clothes near rivers . Currently have been going on with frelelancing reporting which some mainstream media covered including planting of indigenous trees and fencing of the forest among others at the Mau forest in Nakuru county, Kenya.

Recently I with other developed organizations we planted more than 2,000 trees, most recently at Mau forest, Kenya's high water tower and was attended by more than 250 youth and Community Forest association members who I lobbied through my WhatsApp forum, that is example of the work have been doing since early 2019. The inclusiveness of other media outlets was a boost because it has been 

 actually featured in the mainstream media outlet in Kenya like Citizen tv, this totally matches with the Resilience theme "Environmental Crime" And it will really help me in continuing advocy of getting back Mau forest the same way it was many years before. It is a crime to sit down and see negative environmental activities like throwing of plastic papers into the river, cutting down of tree and building at the water tower.