Simon Siele
6 July 2004
Nairobi — A multinational tea company has started a forest conservation programme.
Brooke Bond's Trees 2000 project aims at protecting the environment, especially the Mau forest catchment area.
The chairman of the project, Mr John Cheruiyot, said the programme recognised the importance of forests.
Last month, the Brooke Bond conservation week was launched at Jamji estate, Kericho, with the aim of planting over 30,000 indigenous trees.
This followed a similar initiative in December in which more than 100,000 trees were planted.
Egerton University of Njoro has received 40,000 seedlings for planting, which will boost the conservation effort.
"With such innovative and remarkable projects, Kenya is destined to be not only a beautiful nation, but also faces a better future," Mr Cheruiyot said.
This year, Brooke Bond targets to propagate 130,000 seedlings of indigenous trees out of which 33,000 would be planted within company's land.
The company, he said would also carry out outreach activities to institutions such as schools.
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