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Agency banks on drones to reduce deforestation
A drone flies over a wheat field to spray insecticide at a farm in China. KFS plans to use drones for surveillance in areas under deforestation and degradation pressure. FILE PHOTO | YAN ZHIJIANG
The Kenya Forest Service (KFS) will now use drones as a new weapon to monitor deforestation in gazetted forests as thousands of hectares disappear every year in some of the country’s most biodiverse forests, the agency has said.
KFS chief conservator Julius Kamau said the agency has conducted a successful pilot study in Karura and Ndunduri forests paving the way for the use of drones to help in identifying changes in specific points of forest cover.
