Friends of Karura Forest

The Friends of Karura Forest Community Forest Association

The Friends of Karura Forest is a Community Forest Association (CFA) founded in October 2009. A CFA is a mechanism established by the Forest Act of 2005 ( sections 46 and 47, Forest Rules 41 and 42) to support the Kenya Forest Service in its mission to protect, manage and enhance Kenya’s forest resources.

FKF’s ever-expanding membership allows the association to:

protect the forest
provide access to people living around the forest and to the public at large
restore the forest to its natural state providing ecosystem services for all
provide employment people from less privileged communities neighbouring the forest

For further enquiries, please contact:

Mobile: + 254 (0) 722 891 654 or +254 (0) 739 262 092

E-mail: rafiki@karurafriends.org

Join the Friends of Karura

Join the Friends of Karura Forest Membership is open to all people, organizations and corporations who support the FKF mission to protect, manage and enhance the Karura Forest Reserve. Members enjoy reduced Annual Pass fees: click here to view rates. Here are the membership categories… Membership Categories Founder Members By invitation of the Board, institutions …

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FKF Partners

Karura Corporate Partners The amazing transformation of Karura Forest over the past three years has been in large part due to the generous support from more than twenty Kenyan-based corporations and their executives and staff, along with a number of environmentally-concerned individuals, providing both cash and in-kind donations. The Friends of Karura Forest and the …

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Urgent Needs

Urgent Needs The Friends of Karura Forest Community Forest Association has made a great deal of progress in raising funds from generous donors (see Our Partners) to ensure that the forest is secure and safe for visitors. But there is still much work to be done in the forest to augment and maintain the security and …

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Who’s Who

The Friends of Karura Forest Community Forest Association The Friends of Karura Forest is a Community Forest Association is comprised of volunteer professional Kenyans and residents committed to environmental protection and sustainable use of Kenya’s natural resources. FKF/CFA is registered under the Society’s Act of Kenya and is guided and run by an Executive Board …

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KFEET – Karura Forest Environmental Education Trust

The Karura Forest Environmental Education Trust — KFEET — was established in 2010 to promote environmental education and provide a centre for learning about forest ecosystems. Following discussions with FKF Patron, the late Prof. Wangari Maathai, about the need for an education centre, Shell-BP agreed to convert its venerable Sports Club into a centre for …

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