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The Government of Kenya and The Nature Conservancy Unveil US$160m Thamani Asili Community Conservation Initiative Wed, 10/21/2026 - 11:30 Subheader A national conservation initiative to improve livelihoods, strengthen community leadership and benefit millions of Kenyans. Body TAITA TAVETA, Kenya, October 21, 2026 - The Government of Kenya, in collaboration with The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and Enduring Earth, today unveiled the Thamani Asili Project Finance for Permanence (PFP), a US$160 million landmark national initiative designed to secure long-term financing for conservation needed to conserve Kenya’s natural heritage while supporting community livelihoods, water security, climate resilience, sustainable economic growth and the world-renowned wildlife tourism sector. Launched by Hon. Rebecca Miano, Cabinet Secretary for Tourism and Wildlife, Thamani Asili signals a new chapter in how Kenya finances conservation, shifting from short-term project funding to a long-term investment in the country’s people, wildlife and natural resources. The initiative is expected to directly benefit around 1.6 million people, while a further 3.9 million people could benefit from stronger land governance, effective natural resource management and expanded economic opportunities linked to nature. Central to the ethos of Thamani Asili (‘‘value of nature” in Kiswahili) is placing communities at the heart of collaborative environmental and development efforts, recognising that long-term conservation success depends upon the wellbeing and leadership of local people. Opportunities enabled by Thamani Asili will include ecological tourism, sustainable grazing, carbon programs and other nature-based businesses that support household incomes. Within the landscapes supported by the initiative, these investments are expected to create around 7,800 direct jobs plus a further 15,000 indirect jobs, benefiting up to 80,000 people through new livelihoods and business opportunities. At its core, Thamani Asili supports conservation led by communities. It strengthens local governance, supports land-use planning and ensures that people living alongside wildlife can benefit directly while managing natural resources sustainably. It also supports practical measures to reduce human wildlife conflict, including improved livestock protection and land management approaches. Building on TNC's past experience of supporting multiple other PFP projects with national governments including those of Gabon and Mongolia, the initiative recognises the extent to which Kenya’s economy depends on nature. By investing in conservation, the country is also supporting jobs, economic growth and long-term resilience for crucial sectors including agriculture, tourism and water. Over the next decade, Thamani Asili will help conserve ~17.3 million hectares of territory, supporting Kenya’s goal of conserving 30 percent of its lands, inland waters and near-shore ecosystems. This includes establishing ~2.7 million hectares of conserved areas, in partnership with communities and other stakeholders. The initiative will also improve the management of ~11 million hectares of existing conservation areas, while enabling the conditions needed for communities to better manage another ~6 million hectares. Thamani Asili is also expected to drive climate progress, In line with Kenya's commitments to the Paris Agreement, by helping avoid ~7.5 million tons of carbon emissions by 2035. As the third PFP in Africa, Thamani Asili is designed to mobilise US$ 80 million from philanthropy, with the Government of Kenya expected to match this with an equivalent US$ 80 million over 10 years. “Conserving nature creates opportunities, strengthens livelihoods and honours the cultures and heritage of the people who live alongside wildlife. Through Thamani Asili, we are strengthening the partnership between Government, conservation institutions and communities to ensure that the value of our natural heritage translates into lasting benefits for our people. Our commitment is clear: to protect our wildlife, empower communities and build a future where both people and nature thrive together.” Hon. Rebecca Miano, Cabinet Secretary for Tourism and Wildlife. “Conservation is not just about protecting wildlife; it is about protecting a way of life, honouring the cultures and heritage of our communities, and securing a future where people and wildlife thrive together. When elephants and livestock drink from the same water points, we are reminded that we share one landscape and one responsibility. Our communities are not separate from conservation; they are its heart. Together, we must ensure that the people who live alongside wildlife are not only its custodians but also beneficiaries of its value. Because when communities thrive, wildlife thrives, and our natural heritage lives on for generations to come.” Director General of the Kenya Wildlife Service, Prof. Erustus Kanga Ruth Masha, Country Director for Kenya at The Nature Conservancy, said: “We know that when communities lead, conservation can deliver lasting results. Thamani Asili strengthens community rights, voices and decision-making over land and resources, so people can conserve the places they depend on while also improving livelihoods, creating jobs and building stronger, more resilient local economies for the future.” Thamani Asili will be implemented through a long-term plan that brings together conservation, communities and financing. It will be administered by the Thamani Asili Fund for Kenya, a newly created independent conservation trust fund responsible for managing and disbursing donor funding to the PFP and tracking progress. Initial efforts will focus on four priority landscapes across the country: Tsavo to Coastal, Greater Ewaso, Greater Rift to Western, and Southern Kenya. These areas are critical for biodiversity, water security and livelihoods, and are central to Kenya’s conservation and development goals. Thamani Asili supports Kenya’s Vision 2030, the country’s long-term development blueprint, national climate commitments and global biodiversity targets. It sets out a practical way to protect nature while strengthening livelihoods and supporting long-term economic growth. It represents the tenth PFP initiative so far supported by Enduring Earth, a bold collaboration founded in 2020 by The Nature Conservancy, The Pew Charitable Trusts, World Wildlife Fund, and ZOMA LAB, with expanded support from Bezos Earth Fund and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Thamani Asili anticipates key financial support from dozens of donors, including Daniel C. Chung, Dennis and Connie Keller, Jan and Emily Hammer, Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies, Mary Anne Rogers, Palladium Foundation, Red Crane Foundation, Richard Rosen and Anna-Marie Pavlik, Rob Walton Foundation, Robert W. Wilson Charitable Trust, Sally Liu, San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, Scott and Roxanne Bok, Stephanie March and Dan Benton, Stuart and Joanna Brown, TNC Scale Up Fund. About TNC: The Nature Conservancy is a global conservation organization dedicated to conserving the lands and waters on which all life depends. Guided by science, we create innovative, on-the-ground solutions to our world’s toughest challenges so that nature and people can thrive together. We are tackling climate change, conserving lands, waters and oceans at an unprecedented scale, providing food and water sustainably and helping make cities more resilient. The Nature Conservancy is working to make a lasting difference around the world in 83 countries and territories (39 by direct conservation impact and 44 through partners) through a collaborative approach that engages local communities, governments, the private sector, and other partners. To learn more, visit nature.org or follow @nature_press on X. Enduring Earth is a bold collaboration founded in 2020 by The Nature Conservancy, The Pew Charitable Trusts, World Wildlife Fund, and ZOMA LAB, with expanded support from Bezos Earth Fund and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Enduring Earth partners with governments, communities, Indigenous peoples, and funders to accelerate conservation and sustainable development, address biodiversity loss, secure durable financing, and enhance economic growth, using the PFP model. Since its launch, Enduring Earth has worked with local partners to durably conserve a total of more than 282 million hectares of lands and waters in Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Gabon, Kenya, Mexico, Mongolia, and Namibia, and secure US$2.1 billion in sustainable finance for nature and people. Media contacts: US: Rachel Winters / rwinters@tnc.org Kenya/Africa: Victor Nyambok / victor.nyambok@tnc.org Featured Image Type of Content Press Release
In the misty mountains of Northern Thailand, the festive season takes on a distinctly Chiang Mai character – shaped by Lanna traditions, local craftsmanship, shared tables and time spent with those who matter most. At Four Seasons Resort Chiang Mai, this year's celebrations bring these elements together through a season rooted in connection, generosity and a sense of place. - - “At its heart, the festive season is about connection,” says Ivan Giles, General Manager of Four Seasons Resort... Read the full story at https://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=363149
50% of travelers cannot remember the last advertisement they saw for a tourism company or destination, with a further 7% unsure Tourism faces an $11 billion marketing investment gap: restoring the category's share of voice to 3% would require global travel and transport ad spend to reach $43.4 billion by 2027 63% of Large
SOBX2 and Green Bronx Machine Announce Strategic Partnership To Expand National Impact Wed, 10/21/2026 - 10:45 Subheader Partnership will help GROW awareness and access to award-winning agricultural education, curriculum, and growing technology for schools and communities nationwide. Body NEW YORK, October 21, 2026 - Green Bronx Machine (GBM) is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with SOBX2 Strategic Operations & Business Consulting to help GROW the national reach and impact of its award-winning agricultural education curriculum, resources, and innovative growing technologies. Founded in 2011 by educator Stephen Ritz, Green Bronx Machine has grown from an innovative school-based program in the South Bronx into a nationally and internationally recognized model for using food, agriculture, and hands-on learning to strengthen students, schools, and communities. Green Bronx Machine's approach goes far beyond growing vegetables. Its comprehensive model, including acclaimed whole-school curriculum, incorporates the art and science of growing food as the point of entry for all learning. Their unique project-based learning model connects food cultivation and preparation, science and academic learning, health and wellness, life skills, and workforce development—helping students better understand where food comes from while developing healthier and more meaningful relationships with food. Image Today, Green Bronx Machine's K–12+ model integrates urban agriculture into standards-based academic instruction while supporting healthier students, stronger schools, and more resilient communities in over 1,100 schools across the nation, with 100% teacher satisfaction. Green Bronx Machine was named a “Top Ten Health and Wellness Program in the Nation” by the Harkin Institute and a Fast Company Most Innovative Company. Recently dubbed “The Miracle in the Bronx” by New York Weekly, the new partnership will make its public debut at The Council of School Supervisors and Administrators (CSA) NYC Conference on Saturday, October 24, 2026, at the New York Hilton Midtown. Through this strategic partnership, SOBX2 will bring its extensive experience in institutional management, strategic planning, school foodservice, partnerships, business development, and operational improvement to support Green Bronx Machine's continued growth. "Green Bronx Machine demonstrates what is possible when food, education, health, and community development come together," said Stephen O'Brien, Founder and President of SOBX2. "This partnership is about helping more schools and communities discover these incredible resources and giving educators practical tools to connect students with food, agriculture, learning, and future opportunities. We are excited to help GROW something greater." Aligned to the conference theme “Leading with Purpose: Innovate, Engage, Transform,” together, SOBX2 and Green Bronx Machine will work to increase awareness of Green Bronx Machine's curriculum, educational resources, growing technologies, and whole-school approach while identifying opportunities to bring the model to additional schools, districts, institutions, and communities across the country. “We could not be more excited about this partnership, and we welcome Stephen to the Bronx with open arms, open minds, open ears, and grateful hearts, ready and eager to work with him,” states Lizette B. Ritz, Executive Director of Green Bronx Machine. She adds, “Stephen O’Brien is the ultimate professional, in a class by himself, bringing decades of proven leadership and experience, in the largest school system in America, in our own backyard, to the front and center of our organization. His experience and wisdom are second to none and provide us with exactly what we need to properly and effectively scale our mission, vision, and impact.” “For years, I’ve watched Stephen O’Brien with awe, respect, and admiration, not only for what he does, but for how he does it, the results he achieves, and most importantly, how he makes people feel in the process,” says Stephen Ritz, who adds, “Stephen is the consummate professional who understands people, processes, systems, accountability, organizational needs, planning, innovation, and implementation. Stephen’s skills and strengths compliment and support Green Bronx Machine’s relentless innovation and bring tremendous validation, credibility, and gravitas to our work and our organization. I’m the first to admit that two Stephens are better than one. Together, with Lizette and the rest of Team GBM, we are a dedicated tour de force – with service and satisfaction built into our DNA - who are determined to make epic happen and we could not be more excited to do so.” About Green Bronx Machine: www.greenbronxmachine.org. Green Bronx Machine is an award-winning, impact-driven nonprofit organization dedicated to building healthy, equitable, and resilient communities through inspired education, local food systems, and 21st-century workforce development. Its school-based model uses urban agriculture and hands-on learning to help grow healthy students, high-performing schools, and thriving communities. To date, Green Bronx Machine has trained over 13,000 teachers and impacts over 400,000 students daily. Green Bronx Machine offers curriculum, growing technologies, and multiple opportunities to bring their program to your school or community, Contact: Stephen Ritz, 917.873.6449, stephen.ritz@greenbronxmachine.org About SOBX2 Strategic Operations & Business Consulting: www.SOBX2.com. SOBX2 Strategic Operations & Business Consulting works with organizations, institutions, nonprofits, school districts, and businesses to turn ideas into actionable strategies and sustainable results. SOBX2 brings extensive experience in institutional operations, strategic partnerships, foodservice, procurement, sustainability, business development, and organizational improvement. Contact: Stephen O’Brien, 917.565.7725, sobfood2@gmail.com #schoolfood #health #wellness #innovation #leadership #education #sustainability #culinary #publiceducation #school #nutrition #operations #foodservice #schoolgarden #towergarden #stem #children Featured Image Type of Content Press Release
Eligible new Capital One Venture X Business cardholders can earn up to $4,300 in travel value across bonus miles and credits through Capital One Business Travel MCLEAN, Va., October 21, 2026--Yesterday, Capital One announced a limited time offer for eligible new Capital One Venture X Business cardholde
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The patient is a woman who recently travelled from Uganda and began showing symptoms on 7 October, four days after her arrival. The woman sought care at a private health facility in the capital, Abuja, on 11 October; laboratory testing confirmed the diagnosis on 20 October. She remains in isolation and is receiving medical care as investigations continue to determine the likely source of her infection and reconstruct her full travel and exposure history. Contact tracing underway WHO said the Nigerian health authorities have so far identified 44 contacts who are being monitored amid intensified efforts to find other people who may have been exposed. Infection prevention and control measures are being ramped up in the private health facility where the woman sought care. Cases in five countries Nigeria is the fifth country to detect Ebola Bundibugyo virus disease since an outbreak was declared in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in mid-May – the deadliest in the country’s history. More than 9,500 cases and more than 4,200 deaths were recorded as of 18 October, according to latest data from the Congolese health authorities. There is currently no vaccine to treat the virus. Uganda also faced a deadly outbreak which was officially declared over in late August, while nine cases have been reported in Kenya and one in the Netherlands that are linked to the DRC. Containing virus spread The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention has activated its incident management system to coordinate response efforts, WHO said. The UN agency stressed that rapid identification of cases, timely follow-up of contacts and effective infection prevention and control are critical to contain the spread of the virus. WHO and partners are working closely with the Nigerian health authorities to strengthen control measures, including case investigation, contact tracing, infection prevention and control. The agency is also assisting with the provision of essential supplies including personal protective equipment for health workers. Meanwhile, WHO has advised all countries in the region to sustain a high level of readiness as the DRC outbreak continues to evolve. Governments are also advised to maintain strong disease surveillance and ensure that laboratories can safely test suspected cases, among other measures. WHO has not recommended any restrictions regarding travel and trade with affected countries. Distributed by APO Group on behalf of UN News.
Platinum group metals, gold, nickel, copper, lithium and rare earth elements lie together in one mineral province in Kaduna State, which the Minister of Solid Minerals Development announced in June as world-class and the Nigerian Geological Survey Agency has verified. The Ministry opens its doors to global investors at Nigeria NOW!, held at the Bola Ahmed Tinubu International Conference Centre in Abuja on 19 and 20 November. Processing is following the discoveries, as lithium facilities of $600m in Nasarawa State and $200m near Abuja sit alongside a $400m rare earth processing project in Nasarawa, and mining lease applicants must now submit value-addition plans. Annual mining revenue has risen from about N6bn before the current administration to more than N70bn by the end of 2025. The routes to export markets are moving too, as the Federal Executive Council has approved deep seaports at Bakassi and Ondo as public-private partnerships, with the Bakassi port alone valued at $2.27bn. With a month to go, investors and developers travelling to Abuja will meet these projects at close quarters. In investor boardrooms, the Government of Nigeria will review specific projects in depth, from large-scale infrastructure to multilateral programmes such as Mission 300. Speaking to Energy News Network in September, Tunde Arisekola, Senior Advisor, Geological and Minerals Information at the African Minerals Development Centre, who joins the minerals session on the first day, said that “first and foremost all international investors coming to Abuja should understand that Nigeria is ready and open for business”. In the same interview he described Nigeria’s economy as “stable, safe, peaceful and welcoming to all international investors”. The programme opens with a welcome from the Chief Host, H.E. Dr Oladele Henry Alake, Minister of Solid Minerals Development, followed by sessions on how the Ministry of Power will drive capacity into Nigeria’s industrial hubs and on the policies opening the minerals sector to foreign investment, including domestic processing and value addition. The second day turns to the pipeline of transport and port infrastructure and the $1bn Domestic Green Bond, and closes with an investors’ clinic on the 2025 Tax Act. Lagos State Government, a Nigeria NOW! partner, now regulates its own electricity market after NERC transferred oversight to the Lagos State Electricity Regulatory Commission. Hon. Biodun Ogunleye, Lagos State Commissioner for Energy and Mineral Resources, told Energy News Network that “capital follows bankable cashflows”. The state’s job, he said, is “to create both the infrastructure plan and the commercial architecture that makes that plan financeable”. On Friday 20 November, YES! Nigeria runs alongside the main programme under the theme “Empowering Today’s Entrepreneurs, Building Tomorrow’s Industrialists”. Abuja University and Philomath University are partners, and the Youth Sustainable Development Network is Community Partner. Its opening session hands the stage to young Nigerians already at work in the sector, among them Damilola Hamid Balogun of YSDN and Emmanuel Terwase of Boost Power. Nigeria NOW! is held under the patronage of the Minister of Solid Minerals Development, with the Lagos State Government, the Nigerian Indigenous Women in Mining & Natural Resources Organisation, Women in Mining, Nextier and The Electricity Hub as partners. Distributed by APO Group on behalf of EnergyNet Ltd.. Media contact: Poliana@EnergyNet.co.uk About Nigeria NOW! About EnergyNet: EnergyNet has organised investment conferences across Africa for nearly thirty years, including the Africa Energy Forum, bringing governments and investors together around the continent’s energy and infrastructure projects. EnergyNet is part of Clarion Events, and its editorial platform, Energy News Network (ENN), covers energy investment and policy across Africa at energy-news-network.com.