WWF-Kenya, Forestry State Department partner to Drive 15 billion trees initiative

World Wide Fund for Nature-Kenya (WWF-Kenya) and the State Department for Forestry have formalised a five-year strategic partnership to accelerate Kenya’s 15 Billion Trees Initiative and support the restoration of degraded landscapes across the country.

The partnership will bring together government coordination and WWF-Kenya’s technical expertise, resources and community-based conservation experience to strengthen landscape restoration, tree-growing and livelihood programmes.

Principal Secretary for Forestry Gitonga Mugambi said the scale of Kenya’s restoration ambitions requires collaboration between government, the private sector, communities and other non-state actors.

Kenya aims to grow 15 billion trees by 2032 as part of efforts to reverse environmental degradation, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and restore 10.6 million hectares of degraded landscapes.

The initiative is anchored in the National Landscape and Ecosystem Restoration Strategy (2023–2032), which provides the broader framework for restoring forests, water towers, rangelands, wetlands, marine areas, agro-ecosystems, settlements and infrastructure.