CLIMATE CHANGE
Forestry in East Africa has seen a rapid decline since the three territories of this region became independent fom Britain.In the case of Kenya, The country's forest cover has gone fom 11% to 1.5% in 40 years.Charcoal and firewood are the poor members of East African Society's only means of cooking, and thus, this has now become a major enviomental disaster that is gowing in magnitude everyday. As the only source of charcoal and firewood, trees are being cut at alarming rates. As a result, the exisiting forests and Woodlands are in serious jeopardy.To give you an idea of the scale of the poblem, every day 5000 trees are cut down, the capital, with charcoal. The Lake Magadi area has borne the brunt of supplying this charcoal, and consequently, this area is rapidly turning into a desert. This pocess of desertification is occuring all over Kenya and most of sub sahara Africa.The Africa Conser vation Trust has unique pograms for reversing deserts and stopping the pocess of desertification.
 
             
       
 
To raise Kenya’s forest cover by 10 %, we need to plant 2.88 billion trees, an even more difficult figure to comprehend in terms of capital requirements and logistics to achieve this goal.
 
  ACT has a simple solution whereas, rural farmers plant a specific number of trees every year for 3 years. This avoids forestation cut down indegenous forest and also a source of income generation to the farmers.
 
The Lake Magadi area is approximately 80 km southwest of Nairobi, the capital of Kenya. This area is home to the pastoralist Masai tribe.