Synopsis
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Covered by tea plantation in the buffer zones
NYAYO TEA ZONES
In view of the organization’s footprint, Nyayo Tea Zone, has a buffer length of 939kms stretch with a width of about 100 meters that covers entire forest plantations
FOREST CONSERVATION
As the Corporation moves in to protecting the gazetted forest, the government utility navigated this minefield through team effort. and supported by stakeholders.
LIVELIHOOD SUPPORT
NTZDC in its efforts has established tea buffers to provide livelihood to the people who were otherwise dependent on the forest creating the peri-forest communities.
Nyayo Tea Zones Development Corporation (NTZDC) was established in 1986 under the State Corporation Act, Cap 466 through a Legal Gazette Notice No. 265 of 1986 (later amended by the Legal Gazette Notice No. 30 of 2002). The overarching mandate of NTZDC as per the Gazette Notice is conservation of forests and protection of the environment. The rationale of setting up Nyayo Tea Zones was to guard against encroachment of the forests; in this particular case the gazetted forests and trust lands. This goal to be done by providing buffer zones of tea and assorted tree species.
Other objectives for establishment of the Corporation by the Government of Kenya are:
