Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) has partnered with Kenya Forest Service (KFS) in mangrove conservation along the Tudor Creek in Mombasa.
To mark KPC’s 50th anniversary over 60,000 mangroves were planted by staff from KPC, KFS, KDF, and Community Forest Associations (CFA) on a degraded 50 hectares in Tudor Creek.
KPC has committed to accelerating tree growing in various locations across the country for ten years to contribute to the national goal of achieving 30 per cent tree cover by 2032.
61,500 trees were planted last week in Tudor Creek in collaboration with five CFAs, who provided the seedlings and labour.
KPC has been involved in the tree-growing partnership for the past three years during which period 500,000 trees have been grown. To support sustainable livelihoods KPC also donated 30 bee hives to the local community.
Mangrove forests are used as a spawning ground by fish thus conservation will lead to an increase in fish in the ocean.
Interior and National Administration CS Prof. Kithure Kindiki has declared Monday, November 13, 2023 a National Tree Growing Day for Kenyans to engage in countrywide tree growing.
“The exercise is part of Kenya’s Landscape and Ecosystem Restoration Programme- toward the growing of fifteen (15) billion trees,” read in part the gazette notice issued by CS.
By Sadik Hassan
