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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]
In 2022, the figure went up to 9%, according to the Kenya Forest Service, which said in a post on X on Monday that it “welcomes all Kenyans to mark the celebration” by planting trees.
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]
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]
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 Forest Reserve, on the other hand, is jointly managed by the Kenya Forest Service, Kenya Wildlife Service, National Museums of Kenya and the Kenya Forest Research Institute, Community Forest Associations and Friends of Arabuko Sokoke Forest, and is one of the better protected forests in Kenya. The forest was first protected as a Crown ...
Karura Forest is an urban forest in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya. The forest was gazetted in 1932 [1] and is managed by the Kenya Forest Service [2] in conjunction with the Friends of Karura Forest Community Forest Association. [3] Karura Forest is 1,041 hectares (2,570 acres) consisting of three parts separated by Limuru and Kiambu roads. The ...
Kakamega Forest is a tropical rainforest situated in the Kakamega, Vihiga, and Nandi counties of Kenya, northwest of the capital Nairobi, and near the border with Uganda. It is Kenya 's only tropical rainforest and is said to be Kenya's last remnant of the ancient Guineo-Congolian rainforest that once spanned the continent.