The Kenya Forest Service is an agency of the

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designated by the Forest Act of 2005 as the replacement for the old Forest Department. It is overseen by the Board of the Kenya Forest Service. The former Forest Department was supported almost entirely from forest revenues, and was, as a result, chronically underfunded. Under the 2005 Forest Act this has changed somewhat, with for example, the creation of special funds such as the Water Towers Conservation Fund, a portion of which goes to

forest A forest is an area of land dominated by trees. Hundreds of definitions of forest are used throughout the world, incorporating factors such as tree density, tree height, land use, legal standing, and ecological function. The United Nations' ...

rehabilitation, and the Mau Rehabilitation Trust Fund, for the

Mau Forest Mau Forest is a forest complex in the Rift Valley of Kenya. It is the largest indigenous montane forest in East Africa. The Mau Forest complex has an area of . The forest area has some of the highest rainfall rates in Kenya. Mau Forest is the lar ...

. , Kenya had 1.57 million hectares of gazetted forest.

Mission

Among the responsibilities of the Kenya Forest Service are to: * Own, manage and protect all state forests * Promote forestry education and training and operate th
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* ''Enforce the conditions and regulations pertaining to logging, charcoal making and other forest utilisation activities'' * Apprehend and prosecute violators of forest law and regulations * Collect revenues from exploitation of forest products

Forest management plans

The Kenya Forest Service has begun issuing management plans for individual forests. Plans are in effect for: *

Arabuko-Sokoke Forest The Arabuko Sokoke Forest Reserve is located on the coast of Kenya, 110 km north of Mombasa and is protected as a national Forest Reserve. The Arabuko Sokoke National Park, situated at the north-western edge of the Arabuko Sokoke Forest Rese ...

* Cherangani Hills Forest consisting of thirteen blocks including the Embobut Forest *

Karura Forest Karura Forest is an urban forest in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya. The forest was gazetted in 1932UNEPKenya, Atlas of our changing environment – Chapter 5Page 158 and is managed by the Kenya Forest ServiceKenya Forest ServiceSecuring K ...

* Kereita Forest *

* Saboti-Sosio Forest, a Green Zones Development Support Project supported plan * South Nandi Forest, a Green Zones Development Support Project and Nature Kenya supported plan * Vanga, Jimbo and Kiwegu Mangrove Forest, an Air Kenya supported plan

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Forest A forest is an area of land dominated by trees. Hundreds of definitions of forest are used throughout the world, incorporating factors such as tree density, tree height, land use, legal standing, and ecological function. The United Nations' ...

Forestry agencies Organisations based in Nairobi 2005 establishments in Kenya Forestry in Kenya