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 tree