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Today Kenya faces high rates of deforestation which endanger both its fauna and flora. It has been estimated that since Kenya's independence in 1963, the forest cover has dropped from 10% of the nation to 6%, losing approximately 12,000 hectares annually. [3] These levels of deforestation have impacted Kenya as they rely on the forest for the ...
The Green Belt Movement (GBM) is an indigenous grassroots organization in Kenya that empowers women through the planting of trees. It is one of the most effective and well-known grassroots organisations addressing the problem of global deforestation. [1] Professor Wangari Maathai established the organization in 1977 under the auspices of the ...
Environmental issues in Kenya. An elephant crosses a shrinking river in Kenya. Environmental issues in Kenya include deforestation, soil erosion, desertification, water shortage and degraded water quality, flooding, poaching, and domestic and industrial pollution. [1]
The country's president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is among the world leaders who have promised to eliminate deforestation by 2030. (Eraldo Peres / Associated Press) Beside my childhood home ...
Climate change in Kenya is increasingly impacting the lives of Kenya 's citizens and the environment. [4] Climate change has led to more frequent extreme weather events like droughts which last longer than usual, irregular and unpredictable rainfall, flooding and increasing temperatures. The effects of these climatic changes have made already ...
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.”.
Wangarĩ Muta Maathai – Unbowed, p. 192. The government refused to respond to her inquiries and protests, instead responding through the media that Maathai was "a crazy woman"; that denying the project in Uhuru Park would take more than a small portion of public parkland; and proclaiming the project as a "fine and magnificent work of architecture" opposed by only the "ignorant few". On 8 ...
Mureithi reported from Nairobi, Kenya. Associated Press climate and environmental coverage receives support from several private foundations. See more about AP’s climate initiative here .