Author: Adewale Kupoluyi
Gazi conservation group planting mangrove tree seedlings. Residents of Gazi in Kwale County, Kenya, are transforming their livelihoods and environment by restoring the once-depleted mangrove forests. “We are making more money from planting trees than we used to make from cutting trees,” Jilo Baya, a community member, tells us. Located 50 kilometres south of Kenya’s coastal city of Mombasa, the Gazi community is on a mission to restore an extensive mangrove forest once threatened by them. So far, they have restored 615 hectares. The dense mangrove forest is a blue-carbon ecosystem, which means that it captures and stores vast amounts of…
