Water level in Lake Naivasha has risen by over 30 per cent in the last four years as a result of conservation practices, World Wide Fund for Nature has revealed. According to coordinators of Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES), a project by World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), water level in the lake will continue to rise resulting in good climate hence bumper harvests. “We supply all the farmers with the right grasses and indigenous tree seedlings so that they can help in conservation,” Koros says. He added that the project started with a very a small number of farmers which has now increased to more than 1,500. The farmers under the conservation plan have also expressed their satisfaction with the plan which they say has changed their lives for the better. “We have been experiencing poor yields in the past as I could only harvest two sacks of maize. I am happy now because I harvest more than 150 sacks now which has enabled me to take my 11 children through school,” said Mzee John Nderitu, one of the beneficiaries of the project. Payments for Ecosystem Services are incentives offered to farmers or land owners in exchange for managing their land to provide some sort of ecological service.

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