Family Group Foundation and KFS scale Ngong Hills restoration
The Family Group Foundation has entered into a three-year partnership with the Kenya Forest Service (KFS) to accelerate restoration of the Ngong Hills Forest Ecosystem, with the initiative anchored on a planned one-million-tree seedling nursery.
The collaboration will expand seedling production, support tree-growing activities and increase community involvement in conserving and restoring the Ngong Hills landscape.
The partnership formalizes restoration work that the Foundation began in 2021. The Foundation said it has invested more than Ksh18 million in restoration activities, with over 20,000 indigenous seedlings planted and 70 acres currently under active restoration.
The Foundation aims to extend restoration activities across the targeted 240-acre landscape by 2030.
“As a Foundation, our target is to scale restoration efforts across the full 240-acre target landscape by 2030. This partnership provides a stronger platform to move beyond individual tree-planting activities towards long-term ecosystem restoration. The Kenya Forest Service is key because they bring the technical expertise and institutional mandate required to manage forest ecosystems. Together, our strengths create a stronger platform for lasting climate action impact,” said The Family Group Foundation Executive Director John Waimiri.
The Kenya Forest Service will provide technical expertise and support the implementation of the restoration programme, while the Foundation will continue supporting seedling production and tree-growing initiatives.
KFS Chief Conservator of Forests Alex Lemarkoko said the partnership would also place emphasis on communities living around the forest ecosystem.
“Today we mark an important step in advancing forest conservation and landscape restoration. Our focus goes beyond growing trees to also supporting the communities living around these landscapes. We therefore value this partnership as it demonstrates what can be achieved when government and the private sector work together towards a common environmental and community development goal,” said Lemarkoko.
The new nursery will draw on KFS’s Model Tree Nursery blueprint, which is intended to improve the scale and consistency of quality seedling production.
The initiative comes as Kenya steps up tree-growing and ecosystem restoration efforts, with the Ngong Hills Forest identified as requiring about one million trees, as well as measures such as fencing and geo-mapping, to address degradation and encroachment.
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