Comments on: Payment for watershed services: Focusing on socioeconomic – environment linkages in Lake Naivasha landscape

By: jacinta

jacinta — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:18:26 +0000

Thanks for the enlightenment. I am currently writing a thesis on Lake Naivasha.
Total degradation not far from possible if we do not come up with effective means to save this unique wetland.
Past efforts seem neither enough nor effective in a way. Negligence and Ignorance when it comes to natural resources conservation are part and parcel of our lives.
Inclusion of a tighter syllabus on environmental education should be our key starting point.”CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME”.

Jacinta.

By: gkimega

gkimega — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 09:04:05 +0000

We’ve contacted the author of the article and we hope he’ll contact you soon.

By: Alloys Omolo

Alloys Omolo — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 12:50:44 +0000

Having been one of the pioneers of the Naivasha PES, I would be glad to get an update on the project. How far has it gone? I am in Mozambique now and keen to develop a similar program. I need tangible examples to justify my idea.
Please help if you can.

Alloys Omolo
Food For The Hungry
Pemba
Mozambique
aomolo@fh.org

By: Nicodemus

Nicodemus — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:09:06 +0000

as an environmental student i will like to say that lake Naivsha being one of the Ramsar site must be cared and taken care of so as to sustain the biodiversity which are there. This can be done by suggest more sustainable means for horticulture in the area. Also the catchment areas should be cared for. also the water harvest which is used in the farms should also be monitored so as to achieve sustainable development

By: nicodemus

nicodemus — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:18:04 +0000

hi hello
I as an environmental study at Kampala international university am concerned about the loss of biodiversity in lake Naivasha. Am so stressed that the government cannot carry out an impact assessment to come up with what is causing the lake to go into extintion. my concern majorly lies on the flower farm which use the water from the lake also the chemical the use in the flower farmer. According to me the chemical which are either released into the water or swept away by runoff as greatly affected the biodiversity in the lake. To my opinion we can either do away with the flower farm or use sustainable ways to minimize the effects.

By: gkimega

gkimega — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:22:23 +0000

You raise some serious issues here.

By: Grace

Grace — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:06:38 +0000

Hello,
Thanks for the PES in Naivasha.
However, i am really concerned about the extent of involvement of the buyers, the downstream users of the lake.
As much as we want to help the upstream community, we must first start with saving the lake from the malicious downstream users.
Lake Naivasha is one of the most researched and most endowed with conservation funding, dating as early as 1980s, yet,its the lake thats most threatened in Kenya.
Just last week, the fishermen had to loose their only source of livelihood- fishing -after dead fish (including fingerings) were found floating on the lake. This was a case of lake pollution. I mean simply, the lake is already dead, and we cannot attribute this to the upstream community, can we?

There is a urgent need to deal with the problems caused by the downstream users before paying the upstream users to conserve the watershed.
In my views,and from my experience while working and conducting research in the region, we may help the upstream users to continue safeguarding the water shed, so that there is always enough water in the lake for the downstream users to misuse, pollute and continue to degrade the lake…..is this sustainable?

This is not the objective of this project, but it will eventually affect the project results by the close of the project.

Hope to hear from the team.