Kenyan Ogiek hunter-gatherers claim to have been expelled from their Mau forest after a UN REDD pilot project was launched there.

ECONOMIST: Will REDD trample on the rights of traditional forest folk?

It is doubtful whether Kenya's government is strong enough to save the Mau forest on which Nairobi depends for water and hydroelectric power.

ECONOMIST: Africa's population

Already the once-perennial Njoro river, flowing from the Mau forest into Lake Nakuru where many of the world's flamingos live is dry for seven months of the year.

ECONOMIST: The Kenyan regime��s destructive policies

Neither the UN-REDD Programme nor any of its partner UN agencies have been involved in any action to expel any people from the Mau forest or anywhere else.

ECONOMIST: Letters

The UN-REDD Programme would have welcomed the chance to respond to the aforementioned statement during the interview we did with The Economist for this special issue, but no questions related to the Mau forest or the Ogiek community were raised at that time.

ECONOMIST: Letters

In the 1990s when I was young, there was a land selling frenzy within the neighbourhood in preference for cheap or free forest land in Mau.

BBC: News - Life dries up in Kenya's Mau forest