One of the final Rothschild's giraffes to make the trip from the flooded Kenyan island to a new sanctuary in a custom barge is a calf born on the island in December Nine endangered Rothschild's ...

After her rescue, Awala reunited with three other giraffes saved from the same island Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work has previously ...

The truth about Migingo is simpler than most of us think. The plain truth is just as Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni once said that, “Migingo Island is in Kenya, but the water is in Uganda". And ...

When flood waters stranded eight giraffes on an island in Kenya - putting them in danger of drowning - conservationists had to come up with a novel rescue plan. Their solution? A custom made steel ...

New World Heritage: Kenyan Lakes, Australian Coast, Japanese Islands PARIS, France, June 26, 2011 (ENS) – Extraordinary natural areas in Kenya, Australia, Japan and Germany that deserve the highest ...

A retired ship captain, who worked with British colonialists to draw the boundaries on Lake Victoria says Migingo Island belongs to Kenya. Captain JP Kamar said maps drawn by the defunct East African ...

Laden with medicines, the speedboat sets off before dawn, its path lit only by the full moon as it cuts between miles of thick mangroves towards Kenya's border with Somalia, where few dare to go.

One travel writer reports there’s no place quite like Peponi Hotel, which has hosted guests from the Obamas to Kate Moss. From left: Eric Lafforgue/Art in All of Us/Getty Images; C1R/Shutterstock From ...

Back in the 1950s, a young British officer known as the district commissioner was ensconced in a charming seafront mansion from which he lorded it over the locals of Lamu, an island off the ...