Aden Duale, the Environment CS, has disputed allegations of exotic tree devastation in the Karura Forest while the trees are being uprooted from the protected ecosystem.
Duale stated that the Kenya Forest Service (KFS) has taken precautions to guarantee that mature trees are harvested with minimal impact on the ecology.
“Kenya Forest Service would like to assure the public and visitors of Karura Forest that what is going on is a normal plantation management activity that involves harvesting of mature exotic plantation species as per the Karura Forest Participatory Forest Management Plan (PFMP) which is a legal document developed in collaboration between the KFS and the Community Forest Association (CFA) in this case being Friends of Karura Forest,” said CS Duale.
CS Duale said that according to the PFMP, Karura Forest being an urban recreational forest would be reverted back to a purely indigenous forest through gradual removal of exotic plantation tree species that occupy some parts of the forest.
