Kenya’s Early Strides on the National Tree-Planting Restoration Programme

NAIROBI Kenya June 5 -Kenya’s commitment to reforestation has roared into life, with each of the eight regions making encouraging strides in these early stages of the national tree-planting campaign.
In a remarkable burst towards a greener future, Eastern Kenya has sprung ahead of the rest, planting 4,377,362 trees in five months.

The vast Rift Valley is second with 621,805 seedlings planted so far. The Coast region and Central Kenya have just crossed the half a million mark, with the former recording 523,699 while the latter is already at
514,550 seedlings.

Western and Nyanza regions have done slightly a quarter a million seedlings each, precisely 278,023 and 274,669 saplings respectively.

Only North Eastern (52,478) and Nairobi (77,168) are far below the one hundred thousand mark.
Rooted in an ambition of planting at least 15 billion trees by 2030, the National Tree Planting Restoration was launched back in December by President William Ruto as one of the responses to the devastating impact of desertification and climate change.
The exercise is coordinated by National Government Officers (NGAOs); field officers from the Ministry of Environment, Climate Change and Forestry; County Governments; Public and Private partners; and community leaders.