Kenya Forest Service (KFS) director, Emilio Mugo has urged the residents of Kiambu region to support the initiative by the service to enhance conservancy of forests in the region.
Speaking at the Karera Upland Forest Station in Kikuyu on Saturday, Mugo said climate is affected by the high level of deforestation carried out by a section of residents that doesn’t bother to plant trees after cutting them down.
Mugo who was accompanied by the Korean Ambassador to Kenya Kwon Young-Dae, KFS Board chairman Peter Kirigua, KFS central highlands head of conservancy John Wachihi and Deputy County Commissioner for Kikuyu Sub-county Paul Famba called upon members of public to engage in tree planting in their respective areas.
"I thank the Korean Embassy that we have been partnering with since 2012 to rehabilitate forest stations countrywide in an exercise that has always been successful," he said.
Famba echoed the same sentiments adding that tree planting in the region has been so rare and that he will partner with the KFS to ensure the members of public are supplied with tree seedlings to plant in their respective areas in the sub-county.
Karera Upland Forest Station has been maintained in partnership with Kiambu County government with KFS has been supplying tree seedlings during their annual tree planting exercise county-wide.