Mida Creek Conservation Community

The Mida Creek Conservation Community is an association committed to conservation and community work. It involves the local community in practical conservation, environmental education and awareness, and sustainable management of natural resources.

To this end, they organize mangrove plantations and beach cleaning as well as various income-generating activities including beekeeping, selling mangrove tree seedlings, crab farming, craft sales and an eco-tourism program. There are several eco-tourism activities so you are bound to find something interesting. You can visit the Sita Community Snake Park, stroll the waterfront and take an educational tour of the crab and fish farms, take a canoe ride across the Creek, and organize mangrove planting.

Reforestation of Mangroves in Mida Creek

Mangroves really underlie several ecological functions, ranging from a human economic perspective to the conservation of environmental biodiversity, flora and fauna. The major "physical" functions are storm prevention, the reduction of water turbidity and coastal erosion, as well as the absorption and transformation of nutrients.

The local population living within this type of ecosystem often survives entirely on goods from mangrove forests. Mangroves are a sine qua non for maintaining life and the varied biodiversity of aquatic species and birds in the environment.

Inside its channels the eggs of fish and birds are deposited, which will thus be protected in the first days of life, thanks to the intertwining of roots that protects them from the strong currents of the open ocean and from predators.

Reforestation of Mangroves in Mida Creek

Mangroves are the cradle of local fauna. In particular, Mida Creek is one of the largest mangrove ecosystems in the world, recognized by UNESCO, extending over an area of 32 km. The tides create different landscapes and colors and one is fascinated by the different habitats that can be found: mud, white sand, open waters or tiny channels.

It is not a paradise only for human sight, but also for dozens of species of fish, birds, algae and mangroves themselves (there are 9 different types) .The importance of Mida Creek and its mangroves is to be noted not only at the level flora and fauna, but also on a human level: the communities that live inside or adjacent to it derive not only nourishment but also profit.

The demographic increase has certainly affected deforestation and consequently the need to maintain and in some ways help this ecosystem. Reforesting and planting mangroves means helping not only nature and its wonders, but also the communities of fishermen and gatherers who live in this paradise, so that it is not destroyed.

The many properties of Mangrove honey

Watamu mangroves are a natural paradise that attracts thousands of tourists, conservationists and travelers who love nature and aquatic wonders every year.

But few people know that mangroves are also an ideal "home" for the production of honey by bees, indeed for the precision of "honeydew".
In fact, the peculiarity of the mangrove is the method of pollination, because the bees' product is left directly on the leaves and not in the flower, and must be taken from there to make honey.

This allows the honey to draw all the properties from the brackish air and the virgin environment, as the mangroves allow to transfer the purity of their state of "filters" of the sea and swamp, releasing only the good and natural things.

Thus, mangrove honey, in addition to the sweetness that brings benefits to the body, through good energy, is curative for respiratory diseases and a pressure balancer, as well as being good for rheumatism and treating the throat.