Nairobi, April 22 -- The Ministry of Foreign and Diaspora Affairs, the Ministry of Environment, Climate Change and Forestry, and Huawei Technologies Kenya have partnered to drive the conservation and restoration of Uplands forest in Limuru, Kiambu County.

The initiative, anchored at Uplands Forest Station, was marked by a large-scale tree growing exercise that saw the planting of 5,000 indigenous seedlings, signaling the start of a sustained restoration effort aimed at reviving one of the region's critical ecosystems.

Kenya continues to lose over 84,000 hectares of forest cover annually, with an additional 15,000 hectares degraded, according to the 2024 Kenya Forest Service report. These losses threaten biodiversity, disrupt water syste...