Education and training
2024
M.A. (Evolutionary Anthropology)
Rutgers University, USA
2019
M.Sc. (Biology of Conservation
University of Nairobi, Kenya
2012
BSc. (Environmental Conservation and Natural Resource Management)
University of Nairobi, Kenya.
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Omondi P., Ogutu J O., Mukeka J., Ndeereh D., Ngoru B., Kenana L., Muteti D., Kariuki L., Lala F., ... Ndithia H., Musila S., Musina J., Madindou I., Mwaura A., Gathua J., Matudura J., Ndolo S., Kivasu C., Atieno C., et.al. (2025). National Wildlife Census 2025 Technical Report (Abridged Version) (ISBN: 978-9914-779-73-8).
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Maingi C.K., (2025). Social Media and Monkeys: The Human-Primate Interaction Narratives in Kenya. Presented at the International Biomedical and Biotechnology Conference (IBBC 2025), from October 27-31, 2025, held at Ole Sereni Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya.
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Maingi C.K., Vogel, E. R., Cachel S., Palombit R., (2025). Behavioral Patterns of Free-Ranging Tana River Mangabeys (Cercocebus galeritus) in a Riverine Forest, Kenya. Abstract Submitted for IPS 2025.
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Maingi C.K., et al., Monkeys on the News: The Human-Primate Interaction Narratives in Kenya. Abstract Submitted for IPS 2025 Lekaaso B., Kivai S., Kabasa P.M., Wambua T.M., Mbugua JW, Mburu R.W., Maingi C.K., Otoli P.M., Primate Conservation In Green Urban Spaces: Population Status of Sykes Monkeys in Oloolua Forest, Kenya. Abstract Submitted for IPS 2025.
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Maingi C. K., Social and Ecological Effects on Glucocorticoid Hormones in Mangabeys (Cercocebus galeritus) in Tana River, Kenya. Anthropology Department 2YQ Presented in Spring 2022. Advisor: Prof. Ryne Palombit Maingi C. K., J. M. Githaiga, J. I. Kanya & S. M. Kivai. (2020). Anthropogenic Activities and Influence on Behavior of the Tana River Mangabey (Cercocebus galeritus) in two Forest Fragments in Lower Tana River, Kenya. African Primates.
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Maingi C. K., S. M. Kivai, J. M. Githaiga & J. I. Kanya, 2019. Behavior patterns of the Tana River Mangabey (Cercocebus galeritus) along habitat disturbance gradient in the lower Tana River, Kenya. Presented in the African Primatological Society Biennial Conference Uganda 2019.
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Maingi C. K., Githaiga J. M., & Kanya J. I., & Kivai S. M. (2019). Comparison of the Tana River Mangabey key plants foods along a habitat disturbance gradient in the lower Tana River, Kenya. Oral Presentation at the 3rd Symposium of the African Primatological Consortium for Conservation (APCC) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. 25th -27th Aug 2019.
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Maingi C. K., J. M. Githaiga, J. I. Kanya & S. M. Kivai. (2020). Anthropogenic Activities and Influence on Behavior of the Tana River Mangabey (Cercocebus galeritus) in two Forest Fragments in Lower Tana River, Kenya. African Primates.
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Kivasu C. M, S. M. Kivai, J. W. Mukundi, S. Rhova, S. Komora, S. Wachiuri. (2018). Application of Nutrition Ecology in Conservation of the Critically Endangered Tana River Red Colobus (Piliocolobus rufomitratus), Kenya. International Primatological Society Congress held in August 2018 in Nairobi.
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Kivai S. M., P. F. Njagi, N. N. Moinde, J. L. Lenguya, C. K. Maingi, J. W. Mukundi, A. Lerinkat, T. Letiwa. (2018). Conservation of the cryptic de Brazza’s monkey (Cercopithecus neglectus) and Percival’s black and white colobus (Colobus guereza ssp. percivali) in Mathew’s range, Kenya. International Primatological Society Congress held in August 2018 in Nairobi.
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Kivasu C. M, Githaiga J. M, Kanya J. I & Kivai S. M. (2018). Implications of Anthropogenic Disturbances on the Tana Mangabey (Cercocebus galeritus) habitat in the lower Tana River, Kenya. International Primatological Society Congress held in August 2018 in Nairobi.
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Kivai S. M., E. R. Vogel, R. A. Palombit, S. Cachel, M. C. Kivasu, J. M. Rothman. (2018). Nutritional and Mechanical Properties of Foods: Implications for Foraging of the Juvenile Tana River Mangabey (Cercocebus galeritus), Kenya. International Primatological Society Congress held in August 2018 in Nairobi.
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Kivai, S. M., Vogel, E.R, Palombit, R.A., Kivasu, C. M. & Rothman, J.M. (2017). Physical and Nutritional Properties of hard-to-process fallback foods in the Tana River Mangabeys, Cercocebus galeritus, Kenya.
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Kivai S. M., E. R. Vogel, R. A. Palombit, C. M. Kivasu & J. M. Rothman. (2017). Nutritional and mechanical properties of important fallback foods utilized by the Tana River Mangabeys, Cercocebus galeritus, Kenya: Implications on the species conservation. Presented at the African Primate Conservation Consortium Conference 2017. Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Kivai, S. M., Vogel, E. R., Rothman, J. M., Kivasu, C. M., & Palombit, R. A. (2017). Extractive foraging in wild Tana River mangabeys, Cercocebus galeritus: Implication of Different Physical Properties of Foods. The 86th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. 2017.
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Kivai S., E. Vogel, R. Palombit, C. Maingi, & J. Rothman. (2016). Nutritional chemistry and benefits of fallback foods utilized by the Tana River Mangabeys, Cercocebus galeritus, Kenya. Poster presentation at the 2nd Northeastern Evolutionary Primatologists, Hunters College. USA.
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Achieng, C., Menda, M., & Kivasu, C. M. (2016): Improving transparency and access to information in Kenya’s forestry sector. EAWLS, Nairobi. Policy Brief.
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Anthropogenic Impacts on the Activity Budget, Physiological Stress, and Health of the Tana River Mangabeys (Cercocebus galeritus) in Tana River National Primate Reserve, Kenya.
2025/2026
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Kenya National Wildlife Census: Tana River Primate Census Session.
2021
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Promoting Tana mangabey population recovery and habitat resilience through community outreach and sensitization on sustainable forest resources use, Kenya. 2nd Grant by the Rufford Small Grants.
2020-2021
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Minimizing utilization of forest resources to enhance conservation of Tana River Mangabey (Cercocebus galeritus), Tana River County, Kenya. 2019: 1st Grant by the Rufford Small Grants.
2019-2020
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Participated in “Remote sensing and GIS mapping for Climate and land use change in Laikipia ecosystem, Kenya: A tool to explore patterns of biodiversity and emergence of vector-borne zoonosis and enhance environmental management and community health”, Small Mammal field work - Dry & Wet Season
2018-2019
A PEER Project funded by USAID.
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Participated in a Habitat Assessment and Confirmation of the Presence of Tana River Mangabeys and Tana River Red Colobus in Onkolde, Bubesa and Shetani Mtwari forest patches along the Tana River, in Tana River County, Kenya Fieldwork
2017
Organized by Nature Kenya.
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Participated in the implementation of a PREPARED project on “Assessment of the status of Accommodation facilities within the Maasai Mara National Reserve” implemented by EAWLS.
2016
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Graduate project on “Forest Fragmentation and Anthropogenic Disturbance Implications on Plant Foods and Behavior of the Tana River Mangabey (Cercocebus galeritus Peters, 1879)”
2015-2017
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Participated in implementation of East African Wild Life Society (EAWLS) - Food Agriculture Organization (FAO) - FLEGT project on: “Improving Transparency and Access to Information in Kenya's Forestry Sector” implemented by EAWLS: Deliverab…
2015-2016
Participated in implementation of East African Wild Life Society (EAWLS) - Food Agriculture Organization (FAO) - FLEGT project on: “Improving Transparency and Access to Information in Kenya's Forestry Sector” implemented by EAWLS: Deliverables: Policy brief and Project report.
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Undergraduate project on “Effects of Decreasing Macrophytes on the Abundance of Aquatic Invertebrates in the Nairobi River Basin.”
2012