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The global practice, and what is also being done in Kenya, is to ensure that we have five per cent of our forest as commercial and the rest will be for conservation.

The organsatiosns also questioned the lifting of the logging ban in the Mau Forest Complex, the largest indigenous montane forest in East Africa and one of Kenya’s five main water towers.

We ask that from this Mazingira Day onwards, the national conversation centres on forest conservation and protection,” read an excerpt from a letter presented by Greenpeace Africa, the Green Belt Movement, Just Act, Friends of Nairobi National Park and other civil society allies and environmentalists.