Fourth Institutional Colloquium Report Summary: The 4th KEFRI Institutional Colloquium was held on 14th July 2022 at KEFRI headquarters’ auditorium. The colloquium key speaker was Dr. Kimondo (Ag. Director (KEFRI) and Deputy Director- Forest Products Improvement and the presentation title was "Increasing forest cover in Kenya for wealth creation: paradigm shift from planting and abandoning to planting and caring" Participation to the event was hybrid i.e. physical and virtual.
Fifth Institutional Colloquium Report Summary: presenter: Dr. James K. Ndufa, Deputy Director, Forest Biodiversity and Environmental Management, KEFRI.
Title: Integration of trees in forest and land restoration initiatives: Lessons learnt and challenges from different landscapes in Kenya
Date: 6th October 2022
Seventh KEFRI Colloquium Summary: Seventh KEFRI Colloquium was done on 29th March 2023 . The presenter was Dr.Joram Kagombe
Deputy Director Social –Economic Policy and Governance. The title of his presentation was on
'Creating Enabling Environment for Forest Conservation and Commercial Forestry in Kenya'
First Institutional Public Lecture Report Summary: presenter: Prof. Walter O. Oyawa, the Director General of the National Commission for Science, Technology & Innovation (NACOSTI).
Title: Visibility and the Impact of Research Vis-à-vis Research Funding
Date: 15th September 2022
World Bamboo Day - 18 September 2021 Summary: Report on the World Bamboo Day celebrations held in Kenya on 18th September 2021
Geospatial Tools for Mapping Potential Forest and Landscape Restoration Summary: Kenya is committed to restore 5.1 million ha by 2030 as a commitment to Bonn Challenge. In addition, the country has a national obligations of attaining and maintaining 10% forest cover by 2022. Forest and Landscape restoration will have a big role to support fulfilment of this obligation. Mapping of restoration opportunities is crucial to delineate potential intervention areas. The attached presentation is crucial as a guide to provide basic mapping tools for beginners with little or no knowledge in GIS techniques
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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.