Women Start to Preserve Mangrove

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Women groups in Pate and Faza in the Lamu archipelago have stepped up reforestration of the depleted mangrove forest cover. Amina Shalo, an islander from Faza where about 6,000 seedlings were planted, said the programme was initiated by the Kenya Forest Service, the Kenya Wildlife Service and the Northern Rangeland Trust. “We have lost substantial forest cover due to harvesting and it is time we heeded the Government's call to ensure forest cover is increased as the ban on logging is in place," she said. She added that the three agencies had supplied women's groups with seedlings that they had planted in the depleted areas.