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Forests for the future: Kenya's carbon credit scheme

2014-08-10 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Agence France-Presse: When 61-year old Mercy Joshua was young, the vast forests of southeastern Kenya teemed with wildlife, but decades of unchecked deforestation by locals have devastated the land. She watched forests dwindle and rivers dry up across her homeland of Kasigau -- a semi-arid savanna grassland dotted with shrubs, woodland and small rugged hills -- as people cut down the trees to scratch a living by selling them for firewood. But now, after decades of degradation, a local project has found a way to...

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