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Kenya's government has cleared three acres of Karura Forest — Nairobi's largest urban green space and a symbol of grassroots environmental activism — to build a tree nursery and temporary housing for National Youth Service personnel, sparking fierce backlash from conservation groups. The incident has become a flashpoint for deeper tensions between the Ruto administration's ambitious 15-billion-tree campaign and its track record of lifting logging bans, sidelining community forest managers, and pursuing development projects that encroach on protected land.

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