4PLANET ATLAS / PLACE
Kenya
Country · Africa
About this place
Kenya is a country in East Africa. 4PLANET ATLAS represents Kenya as a stable geographic object at Natural Earth reference coordinate 0.549043, 37.907632. The coordinate is used to open the intended map context; it is not an administrative boundary, ecological boundary or claim about conditions across the whole place.
Geographic context: Africa. A canonical parent object is not yet published in this cohort.
Verified geographic hierarchy: Kenya → Eastern Africa → Africa.
Source identity: Natural Earth NE_ID 1159320971 · ISO KE · Wikidata Q114.
Open Kenya in ATLAS. The handoff carries the same place slug and reference coordinate so the geographic entry point and interactive map resolve to the same object.
Living Planet Intelligence
Geographic identity is published independently from ecological interpretation. Living Systems, Species, Pressures, Missions, Evidence and Solutions are connected here only when the shared 4PLANET evidence model supports the relationship. Until then, those relationships remain unknown rather than being inferred from the place name.
Places within this geography
- Nairobi — City
Related places in the current index
- Nairobi — City, Kenya
- Kampala — City, Uganda
- Dodoma — City, Tanzania
- Dar es Salaam — City, Tanzania
Connected Living Planet Intelligence
Living systems and habitats
- Lowland and mountain forests
- Wooded and open grasslands
- Semi-arid scrubland and dry woodlands
- Inland aquatic systems and wetlands
- Coastal and marine ecosystems
Curated species connections
- African Savanna Elephant — Loxodonta africana
- African Lion — Panthera leo
- Cheetah — Acinonyx jubatus
Documented pressures
- Habitat fragmentation
- Human–wildlife conflict
- Poaching and wildlife trafficking
- Climate-change impacts
Related 4PLANET Missions
- SPECIES_ — species protection and ecological relationships
- CLIM4TE_ — climate resilience through living systems
- RE:WILD_ Land — habitat recovery and ecological function
Evidence sources
- Kenya Wildlife Service — Protected Area Management — checked 2026-10-01
- Kenya Wildlife Service — Ecosystems, Land and Seascapes Conservation — checked 2026-10-01
- Convention on Biological Diversity — Kenya Country Profile — checked 2026-10-01
- GBIF — Kenya — checked 2026-10-01
- Protected Planet — Kenya — checked 2026-10-01
- Kenya Wildlife Service — Strategic Plan 2024–2028 — checked 2026-10-01
Evidence boundary: This page is a source-grounded country-scale discovery object. The ATLAS bounding box is a navigation extent, not an official administrative or ecological boundary. Protected-area totals and coverage figures use different source definitions and must not be collapsed.
Source and provenance
Geographic source: Natural Earth 1:110m Admin 0 — Countries v5.1.1. Source feature 1159320971 · upstream file 1e6ab74c7042. Natural Earth data is public domain; terms of use. Source reference checked 2026-10-07.
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Truth boundary: this Place page verifies geographic identity and map context. It does not by itself establish species presence, ecosystem health, pressure, causality or ecological outcome.