The programme aims to shift the focus from planting trees to growing and managing them sustainably, improving survival rates ...

With a gate of thick forest securing the perimeter of the campus, it was fitting that Wangari Maathai, Ph.D. – whose tree-planting concept earned her the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize – delivered the keynote ...

Her initiative, named “One Girl, One Tree”, is built on the simple idea that hope grows when people take responsibility for ...

Research with smallholder farmers in Kenya shows that tree-planting schemes must account for complex local issues and ...

In 2022, when William Ruto was elected president of Kenya, he pledged that his government would plant 15 billion trees by ...

The national bid to raise the treecover in the country has attracted an unlikely but powerful boost from a six-year-old girlfrom Kirinyaga county.MariaWanjiru, a Grade 1 pupill at StJoseph Murinduko ...

President Uhuru Kenyatta’s recent announcement of a new national tree-planting drive was welcome news, demonstrating the Government’s commitment to reversing the country’s worrying levels of ...

At a time when Kenya, like many other parts of the globe, is grappling with climate change and its effects, calls to plant trees in large numbers have been rampant. However, experts have called for a ...

NAIROBI, KENYA - MAY 10: Residents of Dagoreti Constituency take part in tree planting at Ndurarua Primary School on May 10, 2024 in the Dagoretti area of Nairobi, Kenya. Kenyans today from Dagoretti ...

NYERI, Kenya (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In an effort to reverse tree losses in the Nyeri Forest, an environmental initiative has turned to an unusual barter system, offering chickens, goats or ...

By refusing to let go of a tree for three days, one woman forced an entire country to confront the cost of environmental neglect.