After many years of exploitation of the forests, the integration of the environmental dimension in the process of development has become an essential operation and also a great political issue for Kenya. The districts that record a high increase of rural population, as those of Laikipia and Nyandarua, manifest an increasing pressure on the remaining small indigenous forests.

The government's public administration doesn't succeed in adequately stimulating the afforestation on private land. The pressure on the small indigenous forests for harvesting firewood, poles, posts and other products and services is therefore growing at a high rate.

Hence, this situation has utterly proved that each action has to aim primarily on environmental education to involve communities as much as possible in the improvement of their lifes and the future of their children. They are closely tied to the environmental protection and to a sustainable use of natural resources.

This action aims to increase and improve community participation in the local forest management, to create sustainable income-generating activities in the concerning area, and to raise environmental awareness in the targeted communities.

The main activities are the education and the creation of knowledge on environmental issues, conservation agriculture, afforestation and reforestation of the Lake Ol Bolossat catchment area and of the Rumuruti Forest, setting up of some infrastructures and of training on participatory forest management.

The targets groups are the people living in and around the state forests in the target area, members of environmental clubs in both primary and secondary schools, and generally all those involved in the sustainable management of the forest.