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Small Yaaku tribe wants to be made forest custodian

Members of the Yaaku community during a meeting where they submitted a memorandum on getting custody of Mukogodo Forest to a task force conducting public hearings on the management of public forests. [Jacinta Mutura, Standard]

Members of a near-extinct indigenous community want the Government to recognise them as legal owners of Mukogodo Forest in Laikipia North.

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