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Kenyan parliament passes long-delayed law to protect dwindling forest cover
Nairobi, Kenya - After a nearly 10-year delay, the Kenyan parliament has approved legislation to protect the nation's dwindling forests from rampant encroachment, Environment Minister Kalonzo Musyoka said Wednesday.
The Forest Bill 2005 seeks to plug enforcement and other loopholes in the now-replaced law adopted during British colonial rule of Kenya in 1947 that critics complained was not strong enough to protect the country's forests.