Mount Kenya Trust

Mount Kenya Trust, Quênia

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Concluído

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 Árvores financiados de 300,000
586,562.36 T CO2 Compensado
2,297 Seguidores
Elementos chave
Atividades do projeto
Reflorestamento
Reforestation
The project is planting trees to re-establish forest cover in an area of forest that has been deforested.
6 atualizações
Preservação
Conservation
The project works to achieve forest health and biodiversity for the benefit and sustainability of current and future generations.
17 atualizações
Benefícios ambientais
Conservação da fauna
Fauna Conservation
Animal species protection is a part of the plantation management, such as creation of safe habitats.
5 atualizações
Orgânico
Organic
The project is managed without the use of agrochemicals or herbicides.
3 atualizações
Benefícios sociais
Conscientização ambiental
Environmental awareness
The project cultivates environmental education for adults and/or children to raise environmental awareness.
13 atualizações
Equipe de Plantio
Becky Summers

Becky Summers

Project Manager
Humphrey Munene

Humphrey Munene

Field Coordinator
Joseph Ngarira

Joseph Ngarira

Forestry Officer
Kenya Forest Service

Kenya Forest Service

Government Agency
Charlene Wandera

Charlene Wandera

Forestry Project Officer

Padrões de Redução de GEE

Tree-Nation Methodology

Descrição do projeto

MKT has been working in the Imenti Forest Reserve since 2017. The Upper and Lower Imenti Forest Reserves are two properties in the North East of the Mount Kenya protected area complex. They represent an ancient and important wet-season elephant refuge and historic migratory link to the Laikipia-Samburu ecosystem.

Upper Imenti Forest is situated in the north-eastern part of Mt. Kenya in Meru County. MKT has been working in Lower Imenti since 2017. So far we have planted over 310,000 trees are the site and we now have permission to plant another 100ha (100,000 trees) which is the project we are requesting support for.

Upper Imenti and Lower Imenti were designated as protected areas chiefly because of their value as wet-season elephant habitat. However, in the late 20th century the sites suffered from excessive habitat degradation and encroachment (Gathaara et al. 1999). Today they are surrounded by a ‘hard edge’ of small-scale farmland and other human settlements, also suffering from a large boundary to land area ratio. These factors, coupled with a history of poor community relations have seen the area become a hotspot of deforestation, human elephant conflict and associated poaching incidents. The area is now overrun by the invasive, exotic Lantana camara bush that prevents indigenous tree regrowth. This plant is thick and must be removed before seedlings can be planted.






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