Kenya uses electric fences to protect forests from humans Eleanor Sly © Provided by The Independent
Nearly 300 miles of electric fencing has been constructed around forests in Kenya in an attempt to protect wildlife from being hunted, prevent illegal logging and save water sources.
The Kenyan environmental group Rhino Ark Trust have put up 450 km (280 miles) of electric fence around two key areas where rainfall feeds into the country’s rivers.
This is part of a project to try and save 570,000 hectares of mountain forests, that the organisation says are part of the African country’s key rain catchment areas.
The fences have been installed to curb rampant logging and charcoal burning, which in recent years have affected the forests and have “critically depleted the forest cover,” according to the Rhino Ark Trust.
In Kenya, electric fences protect forests from human destruction
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