EABL Green Team Plants In Karura Forest
11th March 08…EABL Foundation teamed up with United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and the residents of Huruma Village to plant more than 3,000 trees at the Karura Forest.
In a bid to fill up over 100 Hectare of open spaces in both Ngong and Karura Forest, UNEP approached EABL Foundation to donate seedlings and plant indigenous trees in those areas to increase the country’s forest cover.
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| Nobel Laureate Prof. Wangari Maathai joined members of the EABL Green team led by the coordinator Hellen Guya and Foundation Manager Jean Kiarie-Ngumo in planting thousands of trees. |
The exercise also benefits the residents of Huruma Village at the edge of the Karura forest who together with the Kenya Forest Authority will be custodians of the trees.
The residents many of whom are Internally Displaced Persons following the post elections violence are growing the seedlings and preparing the land for planting, thereby earning money from sale of seedlings and labor.
Nobel Laureate Prof. Wangari Maathai and UNEP director Achim Steiner joined members of the EABL Green team led by the coordinator Hellen Guya and Foundation Manager Jean Kiarie-Ngumo in planting thousands of trees.
“We are very pleased by the work we have done today. We have added 3,900 trees to the forest cover and we aim to plant at least 50,000 more this financial year,” said Hellen Guya.
The trees will be added up to the UNEP’s Billion Tree Campaign Tally.
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