Mount Kulal — a living biosphere reserve.

Rising more than 2,300 metres above the Chalbi desert, Mount Kulal is a UNESCO-designated Biosphere Reserve and an ecological island. Since UNESCO first arrived in the 1970s, Wazee wa Mazingira has helped sustain its montane cloud forest, which captures moisture from the air, feeds springs that sustain entire pastoralist communities, and shelters species found nowhere else on Earth.

For the Gabra, Rendille, Turkana, Elmolo and Samburu peoples, Kulal is sacred ground — the source of life, story, and identity. Protecting it is not an environmental choice; it is a cultural inheritance.

2,335 m

Peak elevation

1979

Designated Biosphere Reserve

700+

Documented plant species

180+

Resident & migratory birds