The President has signed an agreement aimed at minimizing poaching and illegal logging with US Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell.
Uhuru Kenyatta and Jewell signed the Memorandum of Understanding on National Conservation and Management at State House, Nairobi, on Tuesday.
He said poaching will be curbed through
improving "our forensic and surveillance capacity, sharing technology and information and training rangers".
The agreement was reached after US President Barack Obama's visit to Kenya in July 2015, when he attended the 6th Global Entrepreneurship Summit.
During Obama’s tour, Kenya and the US announced several agreements on matters including
anti-terrorism and anti-poaching efforts,
the war on corruption and enhancing trade.
Jewell met Environment Cabinet Secretary Judi Wakhungu and Kenya Wildlife Service officials.
US Ambassador Robert Godec said they discussed how to end poaching and wildlife crimes.
Godec said an MOU they signed on how to deal with wildlife crimes will “build Kenya’s capacity to fight wildlife trafficking”.
