LAKE VICTORIA BASIN

Kakamega Forest Kakamega forest is Kenya’s only tropical rainforest, and the eastern-most remnant of the Guineo-Congolian tropical rainforests. Around 1913 the Kakamega forest

was contiguous with the North and South Nandi Forests. The forest is now heavily fragmented and degraded due to the high human population densities that surround the Forest (Vuyiya et al. 2014). The Forest is rich in

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