When 16-year-old Abdulrahym Godhana joined the Wildlife Club at Maranda High School, he thought it was just another extracurricular activity.
His simple choice would plunge him into becoming part of a team of students tasked with finding solutions to counter the changing environment in his home in Tsavo.
Godhana is one of the first five cohorts of Young Conservation Scholarship champions, a conservation education programme where students will be running programmes targeted at conserving critical biodiversity and finding solutions to existing challenges within the Tsavo ecosystem. "A lot is currently happening as seasons change.
Areas like Tsavo are becoming drier, and water is becoming scarce.