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tANHS SutoAn W*mtw 30 Nu mf*c 7 
7000 
lr has been another extremely busy 
year for your Society. Indeed, there 
has hern so much activity that it has 
been very difficult 10 find the rime 
to pause and take stock This could 
potentially be dangerous. As Conrad 
once put it. action consoles, being i he 
enemy of thought and the friend ot 
flattering illusions So how tar have 
we made progress this year, and how 
far allowed ourselves to be seduced 
by merely being busy' 
I would like to tty to answer this ill 
reference to our Strategic Plan tor 
1999 to 2002 — a plan where we are 
now nearing the half-way matk Our 
strategy aims to ensure that Nature 
Kenya is established as a strong, 
independent, significant contributor 
to the conservation of important 
biodiversity in Kenya. To this end. 
we have designated a set ol activities 
that should help us achieve seven 
major results 26 - 31 )- 
2000 
CHAIRMAN’S 
REPORT 
90th Annual 
General Meeting 
of the East Africa 
Natural I Iistory Society 
What of the wider picture? Our 
international links io TBA and 
Eart liw.it eh remain vigorous. The 
'other half of the HAM IS. Nature 
ligjtnli nhn continues to go from 
strength to strength. Their seven stab 
are now well settled into new 
hcudcjuurrrrs on Tulnrl Road, and 
busy preparing to host the Tenth Paii- 
African Ornithological Congress in 
Srprember 2000 With over three 
hundred members and a strong 
programme ol activities and 
conservation work, they are a branch 
to be proud of 
With Nature Uganda, we link to a 
network of BirdUfe Partners and 
Representatives across Africa and t he 
world. Three meetings in the lust 
twelve months — the Council ol the 
African Partnership meetings in 
Burkina Faso and in Tunisia, and the 
Global Partnership meeting in 
Malaysia in October 1999 - have 
provided great opportunities lor 
learning from what others are doing 
