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Rupi Mangat
I'm Kenyan and l love my country. I guess that's why l started writing in 1998 to inspire Kenyans to travel and explore this beautiful country and treat her with care. In 1991, l started to volunteer with the Wildlife Clubs of Kenya as a fundraiser. WCK is a youth organization started in 1968 by high school kids wanting to see the wildlife in the country and become the future conservationists. I am the editor of the WCK magazine, Komba...30 years on. I'm still writing and travelling all over East Africa and wherever else l can get to.
Currently located: Nairobi, Kenya
Next trip: I will be visiting Lake Baringo a freshwater lake in the Great Rift Valley and then Mount Elgon that has tunnel 'tusked' out by elephants mining for salt
Favourite destination: The desert...the remotest part of north-western Kenya that borders Ethiopia. It's prisitine with great landscapes...Lake Turkana that is the largest permanent freshwater lake in a desert, bordered by the Lepurr mountain range and the plains and the desert people who live in this amazing part of the world.
Read the latest from Rupi
The Raptor Woman: Dr. Darcy Ogada is Saving Kenya’s Iconic Birds of Prey
As director of The Peregrine Fund-Africa, Darcy Ogada is working to save Kenya’s raptors – from falcons to eagles – from extinction.
Insights into Kenya’s Endangered Cheetahs, From Mary Wykstra, founder of Action for Cheetahs
In Africa, the cheetah population is dwindling as they are captured as pets, killed over conflict and suffering from land use and climate change.
Women in Travel: Gladys and the Mountain Gorillas in Uganda
Famed veterinarian Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka shares her journey with the mountain gorillas in Uganda and what makes them so special to her.
Women in Travel: A Q&A with Dr. Cynthia Moss, Amboseli National Park’s Elephant Doyenne in Kenya
Contributor Rupi Mangat interviews Dr Cynthia Moss, who has been studying the free-ranging elephants of Amboseli National Park since 1972.
Women in Travel: Meet Yumi Yamane, Leopard Researcher in Kenya
Leopard researcher Yumi Yamane has dedicated her life to understanding the behaviour of leopards in Nairobi, Kenya.