The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations and the Kenya Forest Service (KFS) are ramping up forest restoration efforts in Mombasa, with a particular focus on the mangrove ecosystem along the Tudor Creek.
Mangroves play a pivotal role in carbon sequestration; they capture a substantial amount of carbon dioxide emissions and other greenhouse gases from the atmosphere and then trap and store them in their carbon-rich flooded soils for millennia.
Alarmingly, 40 per cent of the ecosystem is now degraded.
The renewed push is part of FAO's five-year programme, Accelerating Innovative Monitoring for Forests (AIM4Forests), which leverages cutting-edge monitoring technologies, including remote sensing and space data, to improve forest conservation.
