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The Visitor Centre and the Arabuko-Sokoke
Forest Guides Association
The Forest Station near Gede, which is the base for the Forest administration,
has a Visitors' Centre where wall displays include a pictorial transect of the
Forest, 12 bird identification cards illustrated by talented Kenyan artist, Edward
Selempo, and a mounted collection of feathers collected from the Forest floor
with a key to the birds from which they came.
 One
wall of the Visitor Centre has an elaborate security grill of Forest animals,
designed by Andrew McNaughton and made by Kenga Welders in nearby Watamu. The
Visitor Centre is staffed by one or two assistants every day of the week from
8am to 12.30pm and 2pm to 4pm. They will answer any questions you have, provide
you with any of the cards, postcards, guide books or Kipepeo Project honey which
are on sale there, and book a guide to accompany you on your trips into the Forest.
The Arabuko-Sokoke Forest Guides Association (ASFGA), which shares a small
office at the VC with the FoASF, is made up of men and women who are mostly bird
watchers. Their logo is the Sokoke Scops Owl (which is found only in the ASF and
in the Usambara Mountains of Tanzania), but their knowledge of the Forest extends
to the plants and other animals in the Forest, so any trip into the Forest would
be greatly enhanced by their presence. As well as booking a guide at the Forest
Station, one can be booked in advance by email at Sokoke@africaonline.co.ke
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