How Kenyans are rooting out deforestation as greed threatens their livelihoods
In three decades, the amount of land covered with closed canopy forests has plummeted from 12% to below 2%
30 November 2020 - 19:52
Peter Wainana remembers when the forest near his home outside Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, was so thick with trees and vegetation it was difficult to walk through...
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