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Instant forest? 'Tree hopping' takes off in Kenya

The sun beat down on Samuel Rono’s farm in Kerita, a village in southern Kenya, as six young men struggled to load one of several large trees into a waiting truck.

“They (the trees) are not for making timber,” Rono explained. “They are being moved to a new location to be planted there.”

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