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Kenya's greening legacy project eyes 19 million trees by 2030

Former International Automobile Federation President Jean Todt planting tree to launch the WRC Safari Rally Greening Legacy Project at Kasarani Stadium. Nov 24, 2020. [File, Standard]

World Environmental Health Day was marked on Friday with a tree planting exercise at Ngong Hills in Kajiado County, where 100 seedlings were put into the ground as part of a wider push to restore degraded landscapes.

The activity formed part of the Greening Legacy Project, an initiative linked to the World Rally Championship (WRC) Safari Rally that has already seen nine million trees planted across 20 counties since 2019.

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