The National Environment Management Authority in Kamwangi and the Kenya Forestry Service have joined hands for conservation initiatives in Gatundu North.
Speaking on Thursday, area NEMA officer James Latema noted that everybody in the community had a role to play in the full implementation of environmental protection and conservation programmes initiated by the national and county governments in all sectors.
Latema said his department had already collaborated with the department of forestry services to draw a public sensitisation programme for all the four wards so as to have everybody educated and informed on the negative effects of uncontrolled use of wood as the only source of energy for heating purposes.
“Some people have started accepting new energy saving jikos using very little wood. This is in place of the three stone fire place commonly found in the rural households,” he observed.
The new energy saving technology was brought into the sub county by ‘Environment for Growth’ a non-governmental organisation through the department of public health headed by Beatrice Mueni.
Anthony Njenga, the area head of forestry service said the two departments had resolved to give the destruction of vegetation and forest cover in the constituency a collective and all-inclusive approach to ensure the public was well sensitised on the need to protect and conserve existing natural resources.