Business Daily | by Bonface Otieno
Environment Cabinet Secretary Keriako Tobiko has exempted the Kenya Forest Service (KFS) from a logging ban in public and community forests and allowed the agency to sell mature trees to timber merchants.
The minister allowed the KFS to harvest mature forest plantations not exceeding 5,000 hectares while extending the logging ban by a year. The ban imposed in February 2018 was due to expire next Monday.
“The details and particulars of the forest areas to be harvested and the terms and conditions…
