Iconic fig tree saved from Chinese-funded highway

The famous Iconic Fig Tree standing on the space where the Nairobi expressway will pass through along Waiyaki way. NMS and the office of the have intervened considering the Environmental Management and Co-ordination Act, Number 8 of 1999, declared and conserve, on-behalf of Kenyans, as a beacon of Kenya's cultural and ecological heritage. November 11, 2020. [Jonah Onyango, Standard]

President Uhuru Kenyatta has issued a decree to save a much-loved century-old fig tree from being cut down to make way for a Chinese-funded highway in Nairobi.

The presidential decree described the tree, the height of a four-storey building, as a “beacon of Kenya’s cultural and ecological heritage.”