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A resident of Tsunza Village in Gandini, Kwale County, prepares mangrove nursery beds by filling soil into planting bags. [Robert Menza, Standard]
As the tide slowly ebbed into the muddy shores of Tsunza in Kwale, hundreds of volunteers bent knee-deep into the wetlands, carefully pressing mangrove seedlings into the ground.
It was a small act carrying the weight of a much larger fight against climate change.
The planting campaign led by the Kenya Navy aims to restore the fragile mangrove coastal ecosystems while contributing to Kenya’s ambitious target of planting 15 billion trees by 2032.
