{"id":182267,"date":"2024-10-10T22:37:20","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T20:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-community-empowerment-through-tree-planting-kenyas-ambitious-climate-initiative\/"},"modified":"2024-10-10T22:37:20","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T20:37:20","slug":"kenya-community-empowerment-through-tree-planting-kenyas-ambitious-climate-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-community-empowerment-through-tree-planting-kenyas-ambitious-climate-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Community Empowerment Through Tree Planting &#8211; Kenya&#8217;s Ambitious Climate Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Environment Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale says Kenyans have collectively planted 481 million trees since the beginning of 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">This milestone not only highlights the government&#8217;s commitment to combat climate change but also showcases the power of community engagement in environmental stewardship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaWmSKbFsn0gEDGcPy0x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to connect with us on WhatsApp<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"60\">During a gathering at the Nairobi Arboretum on Thursday, CS Duale commended the public for their enthusiasm in supporting the national initiative aimed at&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410100346.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Environment Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale says Kenyans have collectively planted 481 million trees since the beginning of 2024. This milestone not only highlights the government&#8217;s commitment to combat climate change but also showcases the power of community engagement in environmental stewardship. Click here to connect with us on WhatsApp During a gathering at the Nairobi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":182268,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,24987,6239,7963,6461,9890,4688,430,6097,257,10688,254,10450],"class_list":["post-182267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ambitious","tag-climate","tag-community","tag-empowerment","tag-initiative","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyas","tag-news","tag-planting","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tree"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}