More than 20,000 seedlings will be planted in Mau Forest today during ceremony to be presided over by Prime Minister Raila Odinga. Preparation at the 20 hectares site was in top gear on Wednesday.

Prime Minister Raila Odinga heads to Mau Forest Complex on Wednesday for a second tree-planting event. The event is billed as part of the commemoration of the 2010 World Earth Day.

A number of envoys are expected in the Mau Friday to plant trees in a show of support for government's efforts to conserve Kenya's biggest water tower.

Approximately 900,000 hectares (222,000 acres) of the Mau Forest had been destroyed through illegal tree harvesting and charcoal production by 2018, according to Julius Kamau, director of the ...