Experts in Kenya fear poaching, deforestation are surging during COVID-19 lockdown "Some are driven by desperation, others by profit," an official says. By Maggie Rulli. May 5, 2020, 5:18 AM.

In that incident, Kenya Forest Service rangers evicted more than 700 Ogiek from their homes in Sasimwani, in the Maasai Mau portion of this cluster of forests, and destroyed or damaged their property.

Kenya suffered severe deforestation from the 1970s to the 1990s, mainly for charcoal and timber production. Forest destruction is still a problem in the East African country.

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OLENGURUONE, Kenya ­— Mau Forest covers some 2,700 square kilometers (1,042 square miles) in western Kenya, making it the largest native montane forest in East Africa. The forest is also Kenya ...

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Deforestation has long been a problem. When Kenya gained independence in 1963, 10% of the country was covered in forest. By 2009, this number had dropped to 6% as a result of charcoal and timber ...

Deforestation rates reached its peak in the 1980s clearing 150 million hectares, roughly half the size of India, in a single decade. This was the decade that cleared the Brazilian Amazon forest ...

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Seeds of hope; one social entrepreneur is using specially-coated tree seeds to restore Kenya’s lost forests.

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