Illegal logging in the Mau is the cause, and now 15% of it is for the chop.
Closely following Papa Mau's arrival in Australia is the second of the Australian PacX ocean robots, named Benjamin.
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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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There were 5 million mobile downloads of the game, 3.5 million monthly average users (MAU) and 5 million registered PC users.
They recently launched a game called Empires and Allies which has been well received, with 27 million monthly active users (MAU).
Last year, the Mau Mau Trust tried to take legal action in Kenya, but failed to win the Kenyan Government's backing.
Mr Day predicts that victory in the British courts could win many thousands of Mau Mau veterans six-figure sums in compensation.
Mui Ca Mau , Viet Nam, on the southern tip of the country, demonstrates ecological succession systems on new alluvial lands.
It is doubtful whether Kenya's government is strong enough to save the Mau forest on which Nairobi depends for water and hydroelectric power.
The Mau Mau Trust claims that many of its fighters were regularly beaten and tortured by British forces throughout their fight for independence.
"To say we are excited and proud of Papa Mau reaching his final destination is an understatement, " said Bill Vass, CEO of Liquid Robotics.
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But the robot sailed through equatorial waters without a hitch despite fears that strong currents and a lack of waves would take Papa Mau off course.
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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.
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.
People used to boast of virgin soils and reliable rains in the Mau and to spice the deal, it was either free or sold at at throw away price.
Papa Mau faced its own challenges, including long stretches of cloudy days that made it difficult for its two solar panels to collect enough energy to power its sensor arrays.
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The robot is called Papa Mau in honour of the late Micronesian navigator Pius "Mau" Piailug, who had a reputation for finding ways to navigate the seas without using traditional equipment.
Throughout his journey, Papa Mau navigated along a prescribed route under autonomous control collecting and transmitting unprecedented amounts of high-resolution ocean data never before available over these vast distances or timeframes.
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Kimani Maruge is an 85-year-old Kenyan, a veteran of the Mau Mau uprising against British colonialism in the 1950s, and, as of last year, a full-time pupil at school in rural south-west Kenya.
Hui Wing Mau is the chairman of Hong Kong-listed Shimao Property Holdings, one of China's largest real estate developers with more than 70 projects currently under way, according to the company's latest financial report.
After Mau, at 18, was made a palu or initiated navigator, hung with garlands and showered with yellow turmeric to show the knowledge he had gained, no other Pacific islander was initiated for 39 years.
The breadfruit was Mau's favourite tree anyway: tall and light, with a twisty grain excellent for boat-building, sticky latex for caulking, and big starchy fruit which, fermented, made the ideal food for an ocean voyage.
Four Wave Gliders departed San Francisco on Nov. 17, 2011, for Hawaii where Papa Mau and a companion robot, Benjamin, headed to Australia while two others, Piccard Maru and Fontaine Maru, set off for Japan.
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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.
During Papa Mau's journey, he weathered gale force storms, fended off sharks, spent more than 365 days at sea, skirted around the Great Barrier Reef, and finally battled and surfed the East Australian Current (EAC) to reach his final destination in Hervey Bay near Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia.
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Liquid Robotics, the Silicon Valley startup that makes the surfboard-sized robot called a Wave Glider, announced Wednesday that Papa Mau arrived off the coast of Queensland, Australia, on Nov. 20 after surviving storms, sharks and 25-foot surf while its solar-powered sensor arrays collected terabytes of data on ocean and atmospheric conditions during the year-long journey.
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