Custodians of Kakamega Rainforest:

Abisukha are a proud people with rich customs and traditions. They live in Kakamega, a land they fondly refer to as Eshieywe. Besides the Ababukusu, Abisukha together with the neighbouring Abidakho, are perhaps the last strongholds of traditional cultural practices such as circumcision, lipala and isikuti dancing ceremonies and the famous bullfighting.
Abisukha are strategically placed ecologically as they live on the fringes of one of Africa's last remaining rainforests. Rich in flora and fauna, the Kakamega forest is home to some of the world’s rarest snakes and is a top favourite with ornithologists from around the world.

Despite its strategic value, the forest has over the last few decades been invaded by unscrupulous land grabbers; decimating the foremost natural resource in Luhya land often in cahoots with corrupt government officials.
Local Isukha people have a duty to protect the rainforest and the government in partnership with environmental agencies must marshal resources to help them. At the moment, the locals, bereft of any means of survival, raid the forest for fuel and food.

The last of Africa's rainforests now under threat