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A selection of deforestation, pollution statistics (air and water pollution), as well as information on extractives activities, and their concessions/licences.
| Question | Answer | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Available free of charge | Yes | |
| Downloadable | Yes | |
| Publicly available | Yes | |
| Openly licenced | No | |
| Up-to-date | No | Data on timber harvest available from 2016 |
| In an open and machine-readable format | PDF (Deforestation), WFS (cadastres) | |
| location | https://www.opendata.go.ke/datasets?q=water - Open datasets on water including national water sources, water test and results., https://portal.miningcadastre.go.ke/Site/CustomHtml.asp - Extractives activities: mining licences , https://www.knbs.or.ke/download/economic-survey-2017/ - Total national aggregates of timber harvest | |
| Collected by government | Yes | |
| findable_steps | Conducted a google search with the following phrases: kenya air pollution data, kenya water quality, kenya extractives data, kenya deforestation data, kenya ministry of forestry and wildlife. Searched on knbs.or.ke for water, pollution, extractives, and deforestation. Searched on opendata.go.ke for water, water and sanitation, pollution, extractives and deforestation. | |
| characteristics | Extractives activities, Deforestation | There are several national datasets on water and sanitation on the Kenya Open Data Portal. |
| Controlled access | Yes | |
| Collector name | Responsible agencies include ministry of forestry and wildlife, ministry of mining, ministry of environment. | |
| licence_url | https://www.opendata.go.ke/ Clause available on the homepage. |
Water pollution: The ICT Authority has published some water datasets on the Kenya open data portal, but these seem to be related to water infrastructure investments or access to water, but not pollutants. Air pollution values exist for 2009 on the WHO database of global ambient air quality, but the data does not seem to come from an official source: https://www.who.int/airpollution/data/cities/en/ Deforestation: only a national aggregated of total amount of wood taken from all forests can be found at https://www.knbs.or.ke/download/economic-survey-2017/. There is no relation to the total amount of wood.