Commercial forestry investment for wealth creation, boosting manufacturing, food security, health and attainment of 10% tree cover in Kenya
Summary: Kenya’s forestry sector contributes 3.6% to the GDP and offers employment and income generation
opportunities in plantations, manufacturing and market value chains for diverse forest products. The available
land for commercial forestry includes community woodlands at 24.5 million hectares scattered mostly in
the ASALs, farms and private forests estimated at 10,385,000 hectares in agricultural landscapes and public
forests estimated at 3,467,000 hectares with forest plantations accounting for 125

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TheRoleOfCITESInConservationOfFloraGlobalAndLocalContext
Date last Updated: 01 Nov 2023 - 13:33
Summary: CITES works by subjecting international trade in specimens of selected species to certain controls.
When species are transferred from Appendix II to I, it means that most of the species are endangered and need the full protection of Appendix I
Unsustainable trade, weak implementation of CITES requirements & escalating illegal trade contributes to transfers.
Species populations are reduced in the wild by: climate change, diseases, infrastructure development, and habitat loss.