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

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

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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.

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