Catherine Riungu
6 June 2004
Nairobi — The Nation Media Group staff yesterday planted 1,000 trees at the Karura Forest, Nairobi, to mark the World Environment Day.
"The Nation Media Group has so far planted 2,000 trees on more than five acres of land here," said the Chief Executive Officer Mr Wilfred Kiboro.
The planting at Karura also affirms Nation Media Group's commitment to corporate social responsibility programmes. Last month, Mr Kiboro led another group in planting 1,000 indigenous trees in the same forest.
The Nation Media Group is working in partnership with Dr Pravin Shah of the Millennium Trees who plans to plant 10 million trees all over the country in his lifetime. This part of the forest will be known as the Nation Millennium Tree Forest. Said Shah: "Planting trees is what I love most after my wife.".
Dr Mark Nicholson, who joined the Nation staff in the tree-planting exercise, said that while people can make money from planting trees, indigenous trees were also important for hard wood and medicine properties. He called upon people to plant 10 trees for every tree cut.
Mr Kiboro indicted MPs whom he accused of shooting down crucial motions such as the Forest Bill due to partisan politics. "Environment issues are not taken seriously by our MPs," he lamented.
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