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Community's quest to save forest that is home to endangered bird

Dakatcha Woodland Group members in Magarini, Kilifi County. [Caroline Chebet, Standard]

Mary Badiva cautiously scanned through minutes of a past meeting, as she prepared to lead a group of community members through a meeting at Kasikini village in Magarini, Kilifi County. 

Mary is the secretary of the group which is majorly drawn from the little-known indigenous Waatha community, a marginalised hunter-gatherer community on the Kenyan Coast. 

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