Kenya: State Urged to Protect Forest From Destruction

Nairobi — The Government has been urged to gazette Gwassi Hills in Suba District as a forest reserve to save it from environmental degradation.

Conservationists and community leaders said yesterday that the failure to classify the forest had frustrated conservation efforts, resulting in massive encroachment and destruction of indigenous trees.

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