{"id":193310,"date":"2025-03-11T06:42:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T04:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/africa-greenpeace-africa-responds-to-kenya-forest-services-denial-of-forest-threats\/"},"modified":"2025-03-11T06:42:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T04:42:16","slug":"africa-greenpeace-africa-responds-to-kenya-forest-services-denial-of-forest-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/africa-greenpeace-africa-responds-to-kenya-forest-services-denial-of-forest-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Greenpeace Africa Responds to Kenya Forest Service&#8217;s Denial of Forest Threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">Greenpeace Africa condemns the Kenya Forest Service&#8217;s (KFS) misleading claims that Kenya&#8217;s forests are not under threat. The reality on the ground paints a different picture with forests being cleared, encroached upon, and allocated for projects that undermine Kenya&#8217;s environmental and climate commitments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"80\">KFS asserts that Kenya&#8217;s forests are safe, but the facts say otherwise. The government&#8217;s own plans, including the allocation of 50 acres of Suam Forest for a border town, the proposed hiving off&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503100578.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>Greenpeace Africa condemns the Kenya Forest Service&#8217;s (KFS) misleading claims that Kenya&#8217;s forests are not under threat. The reality on the ground paints a different picture with forests being cleared, encroached upon, and allocated for projects that undermine Kenya&#8217;s environmental and climate commitments. KFS asserts that Kenya&#8217;s forests are safe, but the facts say otherwise. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":193311,"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":[258,256,13467,6238,5830,4688,430,257,6129,7155,254,7611],"class_list":["post-193310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-denial","tag-forest","tag-greenpeace","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-responds","tag-services","tag-south-africa-today","tag-threats"],"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\/193310","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=193310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}