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Kenya’s forest cover decreased from 12% to just 6% between 1990 and 2010, ... according to the Kenya Forest Service, ... For more CNN news and newsletters create an account at CNN.com.
The Kenya Forest Service is an agency of the Government of Kenya designated by the Forest Act of 2005 [1] as the replacement for the old Forest Department. [2] It is overseen by the Board of the Kenya Forest Service. The former Forest Department was supported almost entirely from forest revenues, and was, as a result, chronically underfunded. [3]
The incident came to public attention in March of 2023 when a concerned man reported to the police that his wife and daughter, who had traveled from Nairobi, Kenya, to join Paul Nthenge Mackenzie's remote Good News International Ministries in Kilifi County had not returned.
This is the Aberdare Range, a forest and mountain range in central Kenya that’s one of the country’s main water sources and a key wildlife habitat. The Kenyan government wants to build a 32 ...
The World Bank began financing the Kenya Forest Service’s Natural Resources Management Project in 2007. It promised to cover $68.5 million of the project’s $78 million budget in an effort to help the KFS “improve the livelihoods of communities participating in the co-management of water and forests.”
Oloolua Forest is an urban forest in the Karen area of Nairobi, Kenya. The forest, immediately adjacent to the Karen Blixen Farm, was gazetted in 1932 and is managed by the Kenya Forest Service. [1] [2] The forest is 618 hectares consisting of eight blocks separated by the Standard Gauge Railway and several road projects cutting through it. [2]
Kaya Mudzi Muvya is a coastal lowland dry deciduous forest in Kilifi County of southern Kenya.It became a World Heritage Site in 2008. [1] A large portion of the forest is an area protected by the Kenya Forest Service under The Forests Act of 2005, [2] and as a national monument under the Antiquities and Monuments Act Cap 215. [1]
Forest cover 7.4 percent of Kenya's land, and provide services including improving water quality, preventing erosion, and absorbing greenhouse gases, in addition to being habitats for other wildlife. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), forest cover in Kenya declined sharply from 12% in 1990 to 6% in 2010, before ...