Nairobi Green Line

Written by Louise Leakey | 11 March 2010

Do you want to join the Sandy Vohra Foundation at the launch of their tree planting project at the Nairobi National park, in conjunction with Greenline. http://www.nairobigreenline.com/

The foundation is planting a strip of 4 km, 50m deep consisting of 30,000 trees to work for our environment for posterity.

There is a BIG QUESTION one might ask KWS at this venue...what did they think they were doing cutting such a scar along the western boundary of the park, as it runs along the Langata and Magadi roads. It seems in their effort to build a road along their fence line they have destroyed a large strip of mature forest with thousands of large trees, quite unneccesarily. It is an eyesore and will take years to recover. A fence line road should have been cut with manual labour not graders and should have been maximum of 3 meters wide and not 15. I frankly think that KWS should replant this strip with new indigenous seedlings in an effort to repair the damage they have done. It is shocking that custodians of this park have managed to get away with such destruction.