Kenya's Restoration Project 

Author Hayden Higgins wrote an article for The Daily Climate about a great initiative in Kenya. Just this past week, Kenya announced its plan to restore 12.6 million acres of the land in their country that are degraded due "poor land use, including overcultivation and overgrazing." Much of the land in Kenya has gone through desertification because of this, but a team of researchers found that over 65 percent of Kenya’s land is "suitable for restoration."

Higgins writes about how this project "will help government, civil society and business leaders ascertain how they will achieve it." Suggested by Higgins was having Kenyan leaders look at the areas they want to restore and determine how they want to go about restoring the area, and advised planting trees and other vegetation. Higgins most likely comes from an environmental background, seeing how their comments are well-informed and ideas about restoration are helpful. For example, Higgins also notes the benefits of this restoration, including reduced carbon emissions by 3.7 percent, a good step toward Kenya's goal of reducing their CO2 emissions 30% by 2030.

Higgins' identity is probably one that is college educated and from somewhere in United States, and has studied journalism first and foremost. Much of what they discuss is taught in college environmental classes, and the perceptive is one of someone who doesn't live directly in Kenya (using "they" and "them" instead of "us" or "we"). What is discussed of environmental policies in the U.S is largely reflected in the ideas Higgins presents, and their background is most likely journalistic over environmental simply because of the way they report the information- more factual than celebratory and reported in easy-to-understand terms than scientific. 

The article also discusses how the restoration will improve life economically, assisting farmers by giving them more nutrient-rich soil. This is also good for many different groups of people, Higgins reports, such as "members of nomadic tribes that make their living by grazing livestock and growing food crops in the rangelands." Higgins definitely studied journalism to be able to report this concisely, but also studied environmentalism because of the way they analyze the various facets of impacts this restoration will have, socially, economically, environmentally, and politically.