{"id":207778,"date":"2025-09-21T07:08:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T05:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-to-plant-4-million-trees-in-1st-phase-of-mau-forest-restoration-drive\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T07:08:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T05:08:07","slug":"kenya-to-plant-4-million-trees-in-1st-phase-of-mau-forest-restoration-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-to-plant-4-million-trees-in-1st-phase-of-mau-forest-restoration-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya to Plant 4 Million Trees in 1st Phase of Mau Forest Restoration Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>The government has unveiled an ambitious 10 year plan to restore the Mau Forest Complex, Kenya&#8217;s largest water tower.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">Environment Cabinet Secretary Deborah Barasa said that the Mau Forest Complex Integrated Conservation and Livelihood Improvement Programme (MFC-ICLIP) will officially roll out on October 24, 2025, with its first edition targeting the restoration of 3,313 hectares of degraded forest using 4 million tree seedlings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Speaking at a media and partners&#8217; roundtable in Nairobi,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509190039.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>Nairobi \u2014 The government has unveiled an ambitious 10 year plan to restore the Mau Forest Complex, Kenya&#8217;s largest water tower. Environment Cabinet Secretary Deborah Barasa said that the Mau Forest Complex Integrated Conservation and Livelihood Improvement Programme (MFC-ICLIP) will officially roll out on October 24, 2025, with its first edition targeting the restoration of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":207779,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[12504,258,256,13716,6238,4688,430,22619,5118,257,7136,8489,15367,254,10149],"class_list":["post-207778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-1st","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-drive","tag-forest","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-mau","tag-million","tag-news","tag-phase","tag-plant","tag-restoration","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trees"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/207778","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=207778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}