National Tree Growing Day

National Tree Growing Day is a public holiday in Kenya. It was inaugurated on November 13, 2023 by Interior Cabinet Secretary, Kithure Kindiki, in accordance with a gazette notice issued on November 6, 2023. This announcement made Kenya the first and only nation to declare a public holiday for this purpose.

National Tree Growing Day was declared as part of a government plan to plant 15 billion trees by the year 2032 and conserve 10.6 million hectares of degraded landscapes and ecosystems. As of November 2023, the country’s forest cover was at 8.8%, with the tree cover encompassing 12.13%. The government set a directive to plant 500 million trees by the end of December 2023, with the intent to increase the forest cover to 30% by 2050. This initiative is not a one-time event but a component of an annual plan within the nation’s environmental strategy. About 150 million tree seedlings were planted on the first National Tree Growing Day.

A second National Tree Growing Day was declared as a national public holiday for May 10, 2024, with the goal of planting one billion trees in a single day.

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