Mount Kenya Trust

Mount Kenya Trust, Kenia

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Our project aims to restore the degraded Upper Imenti Forest, a critical wet-season habitat for elephants near Mount Kenya. This area has suffered from deforestation over many years, and we are working to reverse this by planting 200,000 native trees to help revive the ecosystem and protect wildlife.

216,693 Árboles financiados de 300,000
586,562.36 T CO2 compensado
2,297 Seguidores
mayo 2020

Tree planting update Karuri ( 4th to 8th May 2020)
Tree planting is ongoing. So far, a total of 29,921 trees have been transported for planting. The target for the site is 30Ha

08 may. 2020

Tree planting update at Lower Imenti (4th - 8th May 2020)
Clearing of the Lantana camara by the community members of the Lower Imenti CFA is ongoing. The target set for this site is 30Ha. The community members are now split into 3 groups, each allocated to 5Ha for them to clear,

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08 may. 2020

Seedlings being offloaded up at the Marania tree planting site

08 may. 2020

Progress of trees planted in 2018 together with one of our donors, FOECT, up at Ontulili Forest Station, Kanyongo site. The trees are doing really well with a very high survival rate.

08 may. 2020

The #MountKenyaTrust has initiated #treeplanting at the Marania tree planting site during the current rains; so far, 20,200 trees have been planted.
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Having already planted the initially dug holes and the rains being plenty on site, the community members are continuing with the

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06 may. 2020

PLANTING WITH PARTNERS
There has been a lot of tree planting with various partners from KFS officials which included the Chairman (Peter Kinyua), the Meru and Nyeri Ecosystem Conservators (John Njoroge and Moses Wahome respectively) as well as the Foresters and rangers of the targeted

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06 may. 2020

Below is an update on tree planting from last week. Rains continue to be plentiful for planting!

At Lower Imenti, clearing of the Lantana camara by the community members of the Lower Imenti CFA is ongoing. The target set for this site is 30Ha. After the first 5 Ha has been completely

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06 may. 2020
abril 2020

This is a film about Mount Kenya, Africa's second highest mountain.

It celebrates this iconic landscape and reminds us that for the local people, Mount Kenya is not only rich in natural resources but is also the legendary seat of their god.

The film highlights the work of the Mount

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30 abr. 2020

Working with the International Tree Foundation at Karuri, Imenti and Nyambene.

We are proud partners with the International Tree Foundation who work with us at several tree planting sites displayed on Tree Nation - this includ...

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Update April (19th - 25th) 2020 - Tree planting during COVID times

During this difficult times, it gives us hope that we can continue with our tree planting projects as they are so important to us and the mountain....

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Despite all the restrictions we are continuing on, with tree planting with all our partners and the local community.

Keeping a distance, and with our masks on, we are trying to reach all our tree planting targets for this season.

We have foot pedal washing units (tippy taps)

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30 abr. 2020
diciembre 2016

Here collecting seedlings from one of our women tree nursery groups!

Several decades ago, three thousand hectares of forest was cleared at the Karuri site for an illegal settlement camp. Once removed, the land has remained bare, with no forest belt up to the moorlands. Since 2012,

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19 dic. 2016
Trish Geidel
Trish Geidel · hace 8 años

CONGRATULATIONS ON PLANTING 32,605 TREES, EVEN THO THE RAINS WERE LATE IN COM...

noviembre 2016

Tree seedlings are ready to plant and sell in the Mount Kenya Tree Nursery. Kenya is currently experiencing a dry period so we are waiting for the rains to start (usually in October) to plant trees on the mountain.



#TreeNursery

08 nov. 2016
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