Equity Group Foundation and KFS partner to plant 7,000 trees at UoN Campuses
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Equity Group Foundation (EGF) and Kenya Forest Service (KFS) have joined the University of Nairobi to plant 7,000 trees at various campuses. The tree-planting exercise is in a bid to mitigate the adverse effects of climate change.
The tree-planting drive coincides with Equity’s ambitious conservation project to plant 35 million trees across the country, and to support the government’s goal of increasing the country’s forest cover to 10% by 2022.
The University of Nairobi (UoN), plants trees annually as part of their environmental rehabilitation efforts. The University received 5,000 seedlings from Equity Group Foundation and 2,000 seedlings from the KFS. The 7,000 trees will be distributed across various campuses based on availability of space including 2,000 trees at the Wangari Mathai Institute of Peace and Environmental Studies, 200 trees in the students’ halls of residence and 400 trees in the College of Biological and Physical Sciences. A further 500 trees will be planted in the School of Law, 200 trees in the School of Business, 700 trees within the UoN estates and 500 trees in the College of Health Sciences. 500 trees will be planted at the University’s Kenya Science Campus and another 2,000 trees at the College of Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences.