In definition of environment, trees have a special standing. Their uses vary from construction to paper making all the way to providing food with fruit tree species such as avocado and mango. A treeless environment is an ugly environment. With this background in mind, tree planting is greatly coveted and efforts to do so are desired at most. Workable approaches should therefore be encouraged and some developed for achieving tree planting.
School approach is one of the many strategies that can be utilized in promotion of tree planting to augment the government efforts in increasing the desired forest cover. Forestry Clubs of Kenya has designed a simple but very productive school-based reforestation model that is unparalleled in view of its viability, duplicability, scalability and sustainability.
For better accountability to facilitate sound national tree planting, we have of late designed a new comprehensive village-based reforestation model that engages official Village Forest Associations (VFAs). The said Village Forest Associations are charged with:
- Breeding massive seedlings
- Transplanting the seedlings professionally.
- Caring for the planted seedlings to maturity for the coveted canopies
- Computation of all of the seedlings planted at the village level to enable a national tree planting database.
