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Kakamega Forest
Kakamega forest is Kenya’s only tropical rainforest, and
the eastern-most remnant of the Guineo-Congolian
tropical rainforests. Around 1913 the Kakamega forest
was contiguous with the North and South Nandi Forests.
The forest is now heavily fragmented and degraded due
to the high human population densities that surround
the Forest (Vuyiya et al. 2014). The Forest is rich in