Greenpeace Africa condemns the Kenya Forest Service’s (KFS) misleading claims that Kenya’s forests are not under threat. The reality on the ground paints a different picture with forests being cleared, encroached upon, and allocated for projects that undermine Kenya’s environmental and climate commitments.

KFS asserts that Kenya’s forests are safe, but the facts say otherwise. The government’s own plans, including the allocation of 50 acres of Suam Forest for a border town, the proposed hiving off of 51 acres of Karura Forest for Kiambu road expansion, and continued land grabbing in Mau Forest, show a continuous pattern of destruction disguised as development. Moreover, the severe degradation of Aberdare Forest due to planned infrastructure projects further proves that Kenya’s green spaces are at risk.

This all comes against the backdrop of public commitments by the Kenya government to expand Kenya’s forest cover, including a pledge to plant 15 billion trees by 2032. The rapid allocation of forested land for commercial and infrastructure projects contradicts these commitments and jeopardizes critical ecosystems that provide essential environmental and climate benefits. This further jeopardises and contradicts Kenya’s commitment to achieve tree coverage of at least 10% in line with its “low carbon and climate resilient development pathway.


https://www.greenpeace.org/africa/en/press/57179/greenpeace-africa-responds-to-kenya-forest-services-denial-of-forest-threats/


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KFS is playing mouthpiece for the government yet failing in their mandate to protect forested areas and to grow them to increase Kenya's forest cover. This is treasonous
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If KFS won’t acknowledge the threats, who will protect them?
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@dickson_mutai No one. That's the point. They want to assure the public of no threats so they can continue plundering the forests
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Kenyan forests are endangered under Ruto's administration.
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KFS and the Government should be held accountable, they have forgotten, how our Forest are valuable to our biodiversity, balance our ecosystem, rain season, shows no transparency.
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@sally_wangari They have forgotten not. They just found out a new way of how valuable they are via profiteering and now our cover's give into pockets of a few individuals
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@sally_wangari They have forgotten not. They just found out a new way of how valuable they are via profiteering and now our cover's give into pockets of a few individuals
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Greenpeace's action is encouraging. There should be transparency and accountability regarding environmental threats.
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Kenya's forests are surrendered for projects that threaten the ecosystem
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@annett_michuki They are left to the wolves, literally. No care about the people and planet. All about money which goes against the mandate given to them by the Kenyan constitution
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I think KFS should be accountable for all this and update on the real data instead of green washing us. They update something yet what happens in the ground is contrary the opposite.
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We need accountability not greenwashing.
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@princess_nel_268 I agree
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My question is, why is kenya Forest Service denying these allegations, Yet they are true?
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@gorffly_mokua is exactly my question too, I think they should be accountable for all they do and say