Illegal charcoal making and its after effects pose a huge challenge to the biodiversity health of dryland areas all over Kenya. Old growth (generally acacia) trees are cut for their high quality wood that is made into charcoal for the cooking needs of Kenya's rapidly growing urban populations. Sadly this not only removes key tree species from landscapes, it also burns the land where the charcoal was made and depletes natural seedbanks.(https://kenyacharcoal.blogspot.com/2019/12/rehabilitation-of-traditional-charcoal.html)
But thanks to our amazing ReGreen Kenya partners like the Mara Elephant Project, who can piggyback seedball distribution into their day to day patrol work, we can at least help to get the right species of indigenous tree and grass seeds into the right degraded areas to help start reversing some of this long term damage right away.
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| Prior understanding of eco-system and selective logging types to match species per location is key. |
Calculations for how many seeds (or seedballs) can be distributed should be planned well in advance by the Pilot and collecting GPS points on distribution locations for future follow ups is highly advised.
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If you would like to help and send them or any of our other partners a big bag of seedballs to plant on your behalf in areas like these - please see here; http://www.seedballskenya.com/donate/4594311653
