"Terror at midnight: abduction trauma of Kenyan woman fighting for forests", 28 Mar 2017

Wanjiku, a Kenyan land rights activist [has faced]…death threats over her campaign to stop logging around Mount Kenya…Her Chuka community…is fighting to win back a 12 km (7.5 miles) stretch of forest that British colonialists made a national reserve in 1934...The 3,000-plus campaigners that Wanjiku represents…are among half a dozen forest communities in Kenya seeking the right to manage what they regard as their ancestral lands. Their battle illustrates global tension between indigenous peoples and conservation policies excluding them from protected forests…Wanjiku …accused the government body of allowing loggers to illegally fell indigenous species...Data shows that Kenya has been hard hit by illegal logging, settlement and charcoal production in indigenous forests…The ABC Trust filed a court case in 2014 asking the government to recognise the Chuka's historic land rights and to bar five licensed milling companies from cutting down 40 acres of forest. [Even though] they lost the case…communities have become more vocal about historical land claims since 2010 when a new constitution recognised the right of traditional hunter-gatherer groups to their ancestral lands…