Kenya Logging Freeze Reversal Seen Hurting Forests, Climate
- Environment experts see risk of reduced forest cover in Kenya
- Government forest plantations grew 5% during logging ban
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Kenyan President William Ruto lifted a five-year tree-logging freeze that boosted forest cover to a modest 8.8% in the East African nation that experiences routine drought.
Removing the moratorium will create employment and revive the wood products industry, Ruto said Sunday. Activists say the government has little capacity to monitor sustainable harvesting of trees and expect environmental degradation on resumption of logging.