Are YOU a tree hugger?

Category: Conservation | Date: Oct 11 2007 | By: admin

Dear fellow tree lovers, welcome to Kenya’s Forests. My name is Michael Gachanja, I’m the coordinator of the Kenya Forests Working Group and I’ll be telling you all about our activities.

Forests are crucial to our country and its people’s well being. All sectors of our economy – water, agriculture, tourism, power and industry – depend on healthy forests. Sadly, we have been extremely irresponsible in Kenya and reduced our forest cover to a critical 1.7% of the total land area. The country is in serious trouble!

I believe that the future of Kenya’s forests lies in all our hands, and we must protect and conserve forests for the benefit of all Kenyans, living and unborn.

As coordinator of the Kenya Forest Working Group I manage the various interest groups of individuals and organizations (government and non-government, local, national and international) concerned with forests, their conservation and management. We formed the KFWG in 1995 to provide a forum for exchanging and sharing information and experiences among members. It exists as a sub-committee of the East African Wild Life Society.

Our main activities include advocacy - forest advocacy actually, dealing with forest policy issues, raising awareness, forests monitoring, information gathering and dissemination, and community based action.

We manage a Forest Hotline where criminal acts against our national forests can be reported

The Kenya Forests Working Group’s FOREST HOTLINE…

Tel: 254-20-3871335 Safaricom 0726 816000 Celtel 0736 600700

Call the HOTLINE to report DESTRUCTION, PROBLEMS, or UPDATES regarding any forest in KENYA.

You can use the HOTLINE to find out about forests and the work of KFWG.

before I go remember - go plant a tree today!

5 Responses to “Are YOU a tree hugger?”

F. J. PECHIR, on 11 Oct 2007

Thank you for this interesting report. As a conservationist myself I have to congratulate you for this magnificent work, and wish you the best in your efforts in conserving this forests. Keeping in touch…

Dipesh, on 31 Oct 2007

HI Gachanja! My name is Dipesh Pabari and I once attended several meetings of the KFWG when doing a publication for IUCN (with Violet Matiru). I was really keen to stay a part of it and this blog will let me do so! Please do keep posting regular updates and let us know what we can do out here in the cyber world (and in the real world for that matter!!)

Violet Matiru, on 21 Nov 2007

Hi Gachanja and Dipesh. Thanks for all the work you’ve done over the years - its made a real difference for the trees, the animals and for us. Keep up the good work. Violet

kenyaforests, on 26 Nov 2007

Thanks Violet/Dipesh. You were there too

samie, on 25 Mar 2008

i support ur movement down here in nigeria and will like to do the same in nigeria to help rise to the defence of forest. thanks i hope to hear from u

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