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| Timber merchants mercillesly choping tree- Kibwezi, photo by Carolyne Kyalo |
Rampant Deforestation of tropical forests constitutes to one of the
greatest threats to biodiversity and the conservation of nature.
Incredibly, fauna and flora in Kenya is the most endangered on Earth.
Though selective timber harvest is part of a silvicultural system used
to create or maintain an uneven-aged forest, preservation of critical
forest habitats for endangered biodiversity is a difficult and largely
unsolved problem.
It requires identifying the critical habitats and excluding all
competitive uses from them. Reducing the incentives for forest land
conversion to agriculture will help protect some critical habitats in
select regions of new development. Moreover, the problem will only
compound in any region where local development is associated with
further clearing of the forest.
Given the economic, ecological, and climatic importance of plants,
scientists will continue to discover ways to facilitate their genome
characterization. Trees have significance importances in our lives and “every tree counts in environment conservation”.
We manage trees on a landscape to know that they are correctly
identified, their geographic source and adaptive characteristics. This
can be probably be adopted by utilizing .DNA markers technology. This
will be attained through biodiversity recovery and creation of local
carbon sinks to compact global climate change.
In my current research on landscaping and mitigation measures to
climate change in Eastern part of Kenya, the key aspects of controlling
timber theft, is by sensitizing the community thorough outreach programs
on nature restoration . This will be enhanced by propagating of both
indigenous and exotic trees nursery management, and pilot plantations
timber utilization till maturity time. Most under-utilized tree in this
area is Melia volkensii. a tree extraordinary economic importance smallholder farmer
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| Wild life Animals |
Habitat loss for forest animals due to illegal logging contributes to
increased deforestations and remains threat to wildlife and other
endangered animals.
