Save the Environment
By Charity Kawira
Kenya today is facing lot of drought and famine. This is because in the country has a large geographical area which is converted into a desert due to human activities. This is a phenomenon known as desertification which is caused by the excessive cutting of trees, burning of cover vegetation and clearing of forests.
Most of forests in the country are cleared by some citizens who claim to earn their living through burning charcoals and fire woods. Also there are forests which are cleared by the citizens’ in order to create their settlement while others are cleared in order to establish plantation farming which poses a danger to the future generations of this nation.
Continuous burning of charcoals and excessive cutting of trees may lead to high concentration of carbon monoxide since there are no many trees to absorb it. This may in turn lead to depletion of ozone layer which in turn causes global warming and automatimatically leads to change in climate which is characterized by insufficient or little rainfall which cannot support farming and agriculture, this leads famine and poverty also suffering of the citizens who earn their living through agriculture and deterioration of the economy in the country.
Indeed this is the high time for the ministry of agriculture to pull up their socks and come up with new strategies of farming as well as legislating the laws to govern the cutting of trees and also to start more other tree planting programmes in order to eradicate this problem in the country.
Also it the high time for the Kenyan citizens to come out of the comfort zone and conserve the environment by replacing a tree with other two whenever they cut them down in order to end this problem in the country.
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