Kenya's 2025 Mazingira Day: Nationwide Tree Planting Aiming to Grow 71M Fruit Trees
The 2025 Mazingira Day festival is taking shape, with local environmental groups, community leaders, event coordinators, and government officials working together on the program and activity planning. The nationwide event will involve a massive tree-planting exercise, with Kenyans encouraged to return to their former schools to participate.
Each school is expected to plant at least 2,000 fruit trees alongside indigenous and commercial varieties. The government aims to plant more than 71 million fruit tree seedlings across 35,570 public and private primary schools. The National Youth Service (NYS) will supply seedlings at Sh150 each, with the government establishing nurseries nationwide and training personnel to support the initiative.
The initiative aims to contribute to the government's plan to grow 15 billion trees by 2032, aligning with President William Ruto's climate restoration agenda. Since the launch of the national reforestation campaign in December 2022, 1.06 billion trees have already been planted. The Ministry of Education has directed schools to prioritize fruit trees in this year's planting to promote conservation and improve school nutrition.
The 2025 Mazingira Day celebrations are set to be a significant event in Kenya's environmental calendar. With challenges such as a shortage of seedlings and limited community participation, the government is working to strengthen sensitisation and engagement. The initiative focuses on instilling environmental responsibility among young learners while improving food security and community livelihoods. The Ministry is using the Jaza Miti App to track progress and deploying field teams to verify planting activities.
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