{"id":228798,"date":"2026-03-28T13:25:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T11:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-kws-dismisses-claims-of-forest-destruction-at-nairobi-national-park\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T13:25:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T11:25:52","slug":"kenya-kws-dismisses-claims-of-forest-destruction-at-nairobi-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-kws-dismisses-claims-of-forest-destruction-at-nairobi-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: KWS Dismisses Claims of Forest Destruction At Nairobi National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) has dismissed allegations that upland forest within Nairobi National Park is being destroyed, terming the claims &#8220;misleading, unfounded and inflammatory.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The response follows accusations by Friends of Nairobi National Park (FoNNaP), which claimed that about 100 acres of upland forest were under threat due to ongoing development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">However, KWS maintained that the project in question&#8211;relocation and upgrade of the Nairobi Animal Orphanage&#8211;is lawful and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603270378.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 Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) has dismissed allegations that upland forest within Nairobi National Park is being destroyed, terming the claims &#8220;misleading, unfounded and inflammatory.&#8221; The response follows accusations by Friends of Nairobi National Park (FoNNaP), which claimed that about 100 acres of upland forest were under threat due to ongoing development. However, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":228799,"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":[258,256,8117,15372,12843,6238,4688,430,47453,259,6687,257,7191,254],"class_list":["post-228798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-claims","tag-destruction","tag-dismisses","tag-forest","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kws","tag-nairobi","tag-national","tag-news","tag-park","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/228798","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=228798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}