World Wildlife Fund TO
HELP SAVE KWALE FOREST

Landscape Forest Restoration Project

Coastweek - -  World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in Kwale, in close collaboration with its key partners, is implementing a forest conservation and management project in Kwale District known as the Landscape Forest Restoration Project.

The project aims at improving conservation and governance of the coastal forests in Kwale.

The main objective being to ensure that the Coastal forests of Kenya are conserved, managed and sustainably utilized through a participatory system that optimizes benefits for present and future generations at landscape scales.

The project will target the key forest sites in Kwale District such as the Shimba Hills bio diversity eco system (including the Mwaluganje Elephant Reserve), Traditional Kaya Forests and the Buda Complex.

The Buda Complex is a group of six Gazetted Forest Reserves found in the southern area of the Kwale District.

These include the Gongoni forest, Buda forest, Marenje forest, Mrima forest, Dzombo and Gonja forests. Planned activities for the project are to include:

• Improvement of community livelihoods,

• Support for forestry law enforcement,

• Farm forests development,

• Restoration of key degraded sites, and

• Gazettment of the remaining Kayas as National Monuments for effective management.