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Kenya
Kenya spans multiple ecological zones and habitats, including lowland and mountain forests, wooded and open grasslands, semi-arid scrubland, dry woodlands, inland aquatic systems, wetlands, and coastal and marine ecosystems.
Boundary: This page is a source-grounded country-scale discovery object. The ATLAS bounding box is a navigation extent, not an official administrative or ecological boundary. Protected-area totals and coverage figures use different source definitions and must not be collapsed.
Living systems
- Lowland and mountain forests
- Wooded and open grasslands
- Semi-arid scrubland and dry woodlands
- Inland aquatic systems and wetlands
- Coastal and marine ecosystems
Related species
Sources
- Kenya Wildlife Service — Protected Area Management — Protected-area framework, conservation areas and KWS land-coverage statement.
- Kenya Wildlife Service — Ecosystems, Land and Seascapes Conservation — KWS ecosystem-management scope including forests, wetlands, savannas and marine ecosystems.
- Convention on Biological Diversity — Kenya Country Profile — Ecological-zone and habitat summary. CBD labels the profile text as draft; 4PLANET preserves that limitation.
- GBIF — Kenya — Country-scale biodiversity occurrence-data entry point; occurrence records are not population estimates or complete range.
- Protected Planet — Kenya — September 2026 protected-area profile and source inventory.
- Kenya Wildlife Service — Strategic Plan 2024–2028 — KWS-described pressures including habitat fragmentation, human–wildlife conflict, poaching and climate change.