The Kenya Forest Service has embarked on tree planting in Kiambu County so as to fill the degraded regions of its forests.
Green Africa Foundation CEO Isaac Kalua who was also present asked stakeholders to support the KFS to protect the forests since they face mobility challenges.
He noted that one forest with more than 10,000 hectares, has one forester, a deputy forester, and 10 rangers but operates with one vehicle and others have none.
"Can you imagine how these officials keep crisscrossing the forests as they patrol them?" he asked.
"KFS is trying its best to have enough vehicles and motorcycles, those existing ones are not enough. We need to support the service with whatever we have since they work to protect the forests and environment at large" he noted.
Area ecosystem conservator Thomas Kiptoo said the seedlings will not dry up as the area has enough rain and the environment is favorable for trees selected to grow.
Kiptoo spoke on Monday at Uplands Forest where he said they have 138 hectares that have not been planted.
He had hosted officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs who planted trees in a 2 hectares piece of land at a forest region they adopted.
The KFS came up with an adopt a forest strategy where government departments, organisations, and other entities adopt a forest for a period of time and plant trees.
"We are welcoming all our partners and stakeholders to plant trees in the forest at this time when we have rains," he said.
Lari deputy county commissioner Samuel Kariuki urged the society and the stakeholders to assist the government to plant trees so as to achieve 15 billion trees planted by 2030.
He urged people to plant trees even in their own homes.
