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Mount Kenya is a place for recreation and enjoyment

For adventurers, Mt. Kenya offers endless opportunities for outdoor recreation.

Recreation and tourism activities in and around Mt. Kenya include: mountain trekking and hiking, rock climbing, watching wildlife, bird watching and identification, camping, fishing, studying plants and animals, enjoying scenery and many other activities.

Recreation in the wild has countless proven benefits to our health and wellbeing. Mt. Kenya tourism creates significant socio-economic benefits to the local people as well as contributing towards national economy.

Close to 100,000 foreign and local people visit Mt. Kenya each year. Over 1,000 young people earn gainful employment as porters and guides. Tourist hotels around the ecosystem also provide employment both directly and indirectly.

Recreation

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Livelihood

Mount Kenya is an economic driver and a source of livelihoods.

For many people who live near Mt. Kenya, the mountain contributes greatly to their local economy and way of life.

Mt. Kenya is their source of fuel wood, building materials, grazing, water for domestic use and irrigation, wild vegetables and medicinal plants.

Mountain based tourism employs hundreds of local youth as porters and guides, while many local businesses are supported by tourism.

Mt. Kenya also contributes significantly to the national economy, more than half of national electric power is generated by Mt. Kenya rivers- hydro electric power.

Timber industry on Mt. Kenya is also a major economic activity.

Holy

Mountain

Mount Kenya is a holy mountain

Mount Kenya is regarded as a holy mountain by all the communities (Kikuyu, Embu and Meru) living adjacent to it.

They use the mountain for traditional rituals based on the belief that their traditional God called Ngai live on the peaks of the mountain.

Traditionally, when they pray, these communities do so while facing Mt. Kenya.

Natural Resourse

Mount Kenya is source of vital natural resources that must be managed sustainably

Mount Kenya provides various natural resources to the local and national populations.

It provides wood products for fuel, building and construction; it is a dry period refuge for grazing, it is also a source for edible and medicinal plants and water.

Uncontrolled and illegal uptake of forest, wildlife and water resources contributes to environmental degradation, loss of species and drying of rivers.

Sustainable management of these resources will ensure that the current and future generation will have access to natural resources upon which their livelihoods depend.