DKF urges all Kenyans to support the Green initiative which targets to plant 30 million seedlings in the next three years. Let everyone plant a tree a day. Dedan Kimathi Foundation marked World Environment Day by planting planting 4,000 indigenous tree seedlings at Sasumua Dam Water catchment area in partnership with NWSC and RED CROSS. Additionally, we also donated 2,000 seedlings to Sasumwa Primary School in Njabini, Kenya.
We have planted over 1,000,000 trees since we began this noble project and worked with hundreds of landowners, schools and local authorities. Planting more trees helps to maintain healthy soils and humidity levels in the air around the world. It begins when trees regulate the water cycle. Trees absorb air and transpire it back into the atmosphere, effectively filtering and controlling the levels of humidity wherever they are. Trees are essential for people, wildlife and the environment. Trees create shade and shelter for crops and livestock, and improve livestock wellbeing too. Thousands of wildlife species depend on trees for food and shelter.
“Global populations of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and fish have suffered an average two-thirds decline in less than half a century due in large part to the very same environmental destruction, which is contributing to the emergence of zoonotic diseases such as Covid-19,” notes an earlier report, ‘Living Planet Report 2020’, brought out by WWF or World Wide Fund for Nature, an international NGO.
As we enter into the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, DKF believes that tree planting for Environmental Sustainability is the new frontier to a safer, cleaner, greener and more natural world. We therefore encourage you all to plant more trees to promote environmental conservation and improve livelihoods for this generation and future generations too.
