🐝 Ogiek translates as ‘the caretaker of all plants and wild animals’. The Ogiek people, one of the last remaining hunter gatherer Indigenous groups in Kenya, live up to the name. For centuries, they have practiced traditional beekeeping in log hives, always leaving enough honey in the combs to encourage the bees to stay. Despite attempts to displace them from their lands in the Mau forest, the Ogiek continue to resist. They are keepers of the forest. The Kawari Fund has supported the advocacy work of the Ogiek People's Development Program to help them engage the government over the issue of ancestral land claims and the land right ruling. Link in bio to learn more! 🟢 Together Mullu and Re:wild are calling on the world’s leaders to recognize and safeguard Indigenous Peoples’ knowledge, traditional ways of governance, and management of our planet’s irreplaceable ecosystems as a critical solution to the interrelated climate, biodiversity loss, and human wellbeing crises. @cop16colom...