Kenyans urged to establish private forests to achieve target of 15billion trees
Kenyans have been urged to embrace agroforestry in a bid to attain the internationally set forest cover.
Cabinet Secretary for East African Community, ASALS and Regional Development Ms Penina Malonza also called on Kenyans to plant trees when marking special occasions or attending church.
Speaking at Kithoka primary school in Imenti...
EASTERN REGION TARGET 11MILLION TREES ON TREE PLANTING DAY
Residents in Meru county have been urged to come out in large numbers and participate in the national tree planting exercise tomorrow as Eastern region target to plant 11 million trees .
Speaking to the media Meru county forest conservator Williston Ndaka accompanied by community forest association (CFA) officials today said the exercise is...
Women who greened Meru town wait for pay, 12 years later
Zipporah Gathoni, 63, the chairperson of Iriene Mazingira women group surveys mature trees at Nteere gardens in Meru town with teary eyes.
She swallows hard and struggles to recount how the group of elderly women were contracted by the defunct Meru Municipal Council to plant trees within Meru town some 11 years ago but never paid...
Two children drown in a dam in unclear circumstances,
A sombre mood engulfed Runyenye village in Kiirua location, Buuri constituency in Meru county after two children drowned in a private dam in unclear circumstances.
The two deceased children who are a boy and girl aged three and four years respectively were playing together when the unfortunate incident occurred.
The incident...
Deaths, destruction, displacement. Who will save Kenyans?
So many deaths. So much destruction. Displacement of thousands. Postponement of school opening. Roads and bridges are crumbling. What a wasted economy? The sad thing is that the government appears so unprepared in tackling such emergencies.
