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Restoration & Tree-Growing Reports

Tree-growing programme, seedlings, survival, landscape and mangrove restoration.

Mangrove Restoration Progress

Under the KFS Strategic Plan 2023–2027 (strategic objective 2.4, reverse degradation of mangrove ecosystems), KFS aims to restore 300 ha of degraded mangrove by 2027, with 150 ha by mid-term. About 24,600 ha of mangrove is degraded (National Mangrove Ecosystem Restoration Guidelines 2025).

Mangrove area and degraded mangrove by county (National Mangrove Ecosystem Restoration Guidelines 2025, Tables 1 and 4)
61,271 haMangrove forestAlong 600 km of coast; under 1% of Kenya's land
24,584 haDegraded40% of the mangrove area
61%In Lamu County37,350 ha
US$ 85 MValue of services each yearWood, fisheries, coastal protection, carbon
Lamu
37,350 ha39% degraded
Kilifi
8,536 ha40% degraded
Kwale
8,354 ha45% degraded
Mombasa
3,771 ha49% degraded
Tana River
3,260 ha36% degraded
Mangrove in good conditionDegraded mangrove

Peri-urban mangroves in Mombasa (Tudor, Makupa) are the most affected. Main drivers: illegal cutting, sedimentation and siltation, conversion (for example to salt pans), pollution, coastal development and climate change.

Restoration sites report the indicators in the national guidelines (area restored, propagules and seedlings planted, survival rate, area protected for natural regeneration, community participation). Reports go from the forester to the County Mangrove Management Committee and quarterly to the National Mangrove Management Committee. Progress figures will be shown here as they are reported.

Source: Kenya Forest Service, Strategic Plan 2023–2027; Government of Kenya (2025), National Mangrove Ecosystem Restoration Guidelines, Kenya Forest Service.