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Elephants grazing at lower Imenti forest. [File, Standard]
The Green Belt Movement has strongly condemned a proposal to construct a State lodge, airstrip and golf course within Imenti Forest in Meru County.
In a statement dated June 4, the conservation group said the plan undermines constitutional safeguards protecting forests and other critical public resources.
“Kenyans must ask themselves a simple question: How does an airstrip qualify as forest conservation? How does a golf course protect water catchments? How does a State lodge restore degraded ecosystems? These projects are not necessities. They are luxuries. They have no place in a protected public forest,” the group said.
