Reports

Degraded and stocked forest area by forest block and station (V1)

Kenya Forest Service · 2026

Degraded and well-stocked forest area for each forest block and station, to target restoration.

Kenya Forest Fire Intelligence System

Kenya Forest Service · 2026

Forest fires 2000–2026 by county, gazetted forest, park and conservancy: burned area (NASA FIRMS), hotspots, seasonality, fire risk and live monitoring.

Kenya Forest Service Strategic Plan 2023–2027

Kenya Forest Service · April 2024

Mandate, vision and mission; four key result areas and eleven strategic objectives, including raising tree cover from 12.13% to 21.03% by 2027; implementation matrix, KSh 202 billion financing need and the monitoring framework.

2021 National Forest Resources Assessment: county figures

Kenya Forest Service · 2021

Forest cover (8.83%), tree cover (12.13%), canopy density, land use and forest types for Kenya and all 47 counties, mapped from WorldView very high-resolution imagery.

2021 used WorldView imagery; all other years used Landsat (30 m), so 2021 is not directly comparable with 2010–2018.

Kenya's Safeguards Information System (Country Approach to Safeguards)

Ministry of Environment and Forestry · December 2021

The seven Cancun safeguards, Kenya's interpretation and indicators, and how REDD+ implementers report.

National Forest Monitoring System in the Republic of Kenya, Version 1 (Draft)

Ministry of Environment and Forestry · February 2021

Design of Kenya's NFMS: institutional arrangements, forest definitions and stratification, land monitoring, forest inventory, MRV, safeguards and data management.

Content is in the portal (About NFMS, Definitions, MRV); the PDF will be added when cleared for publication.

National REDD+ Strategy

Ministry of Environment and Forestry · December 2021

Drivers of deforestation and degradation, the five strategic options, institutional arrangements and MRV for REDD+ in Kenya.