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World Animal Day 2023
Great or small, Love them all. We are pleased to join the world in celebrating World Animal Day under the theme ‘Great or small love them all’. This year’s theme resonates well with what we do at Africa Network for Animal Welfare (ANAW) where animals are at the center of our focus. We believe that animal are sentient beings and they should not suffer. Many animals, just as humans have a conscience and are able to feel emotions such as love, happiness and pain. An animal’s cry expresses pain...
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The Five Freedoms of Animal Welfare and Their Provisions
The African Network for Animal Welfare’s vigorous projects are guided by the universally accepted five freedoms of animal welfare. The concept was first formulated in 1965 under the Brambell Report in response to the well-being of farm animals, how they were raised, transported and slaughtered. It stated that animals should have the freedom to stand up, lie down, turn around, groom themselves and stretch their limbs. They were expanded further by the Farm Animal Welfare Council in 1979 to the...
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The Silent Role of Community Informants Affirm a Participatory Approach to Animal Care and Conservation
An exhausted hardworking team felt the draft of the city life in the rescue vehicle the minute they hit Mlolongo along Mombasa Road. It was a composite din of matatus honking in traffic, the vendors shouting out affordable prices and clustered hordes of people crossing under various flyovers on the highway in the urban concrete jungle. The fatigue and sudden noise that marked the hustle and bustle of city life did not wan their spirits. The wildlife rescue and de-snaring operations had been...
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The Indigenous Community of Tsavo East National Park
Together with a team from Africa Network for Animal Welfare (ANAW), I set out for a field trip that would inform our activities for the year 2020. My love for animals in their natural environs had me eagerly looking forward to seeing the big five on this expedition. Our drive from Nairobi down the smooth Mombasa highway was mostly uneventful as we talked about everything from work, animals, roads to Kenyan politics. After about five hours, we arrived at the largest town in Taita-Taveta County, Voi....
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Edge Of Extinction #2
By Felix Kioko A lot has been written, talked about and advertised about climate change. In the first series of edge of extinction we learnt on why it is important to limit global rise in average temperatures to below 1.5 degrees. We know climate change is happening but the biggest questions are what do we do about it? Who are responsible to take action? Many people think that it is the government’s role to stop climate change, the government on the other hand thinks it is the people who are to...
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Edge Of Extinction #1
By Felix Kioko The Paris Agreement, which delegates from 196 countries hammered out in December 2015, calls for holding the ongoing rise in global average temperature to “well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels,” while “pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C.” “Why is holding global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius such a big deal?” Many people think of the hottest days of the summer where temperatures already hit 40 degrees (that’s 104 degrees Fahrenheit) where they...
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Inside the Conciousness
In a normal human life, we are bound to experience emotion from the time we are born, to the time we leave this earth. Whether it is the emotion expressed when: a mother gets a new born, when the lights go out and you miss your favorite show or when you lose the ones you love. Emotions are part of human consciousness that we cannot function without, unless you are a zombie! There are seven universal emotions expressed by human beings that is; anger, fear, disgust, happiness, sadness, surprise,...
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Denver Diary
Each year Africa Network for Animal Welfare (ANAW) in conjunction with the University of Denver, Graduate School of Social Work organize an experiential learning trip for the students. Last year, 2019, was no different and here is our diary: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 The ANAW cruiser engine is on at about 7:30 am. The destination being Kifaru Guest House in Karen, Nairobi. The ignition of the engine does not only signify the power behind it but the start of a journey that will take us from...
