People behind AEWA - Dr. James Njogu

Bonn, 9 October 2015 - Dr. James G. Njogu is the AEWA National Focal Point for Kenya. In addition, he is the National Focal Point for CMS and Ramsar, and since 2005 he has been serving as Head of Conventions at the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS). While managing Kenya’s wildlife and its habitats, the organization works closely with other stakeholders to conserve, protect and sustainably manage wildlife resources.

The Community Wildlife Program of KWS encourages biodiversity conservation involving communities living on land essential to wildlife, such as wildlife corridors and scattered stretches of land outside parks and reserves. The premise is that "if people benefit from wildlife and other natural resources, then they will take care of these resources."

To James, AEWA, as an Agreement within the CMS Family, represents a significant milestone in migratory bird conservation. It ensures that negative human impacts are mitigated to maintain migratory bird populations at sustainable levels in the African-Eurasian region while preserving their migrations.

“Conservation of migratory birds is a call by nature to care about the interwoven global ecological systems that are self-driven, resilient and mystical, ticking second by second to make a minute, hours, days, years and even millenniums. These systems have been perfected, but humans have invaded and spread their impacts like rust on a steel clock. AEWA has achieved a lot and yet has more to do. The awareness-creation through World Migratory Bird Day (WMBD) is one initiative and Kenya is proud to have hosted the first-ever WMBD celebration on 8 April 2006 at Ms Kuki Gallmann's wildlife reserve, Ol Ari Nyiro in Laikipia, Kenya.”, said James. 

James’ favorite AEWA species is the Lesser Flamingo (Phoeniconaias minor), “because of its beauty, both individually and in numbers”.

Last updated on 14 October 2015