County staff reclaimed land at the entrance of City Park and invited Friends of City Park to partner with them about what to plant in the area. FoCP consulted experts and the consensus was to create a model indigenous forest of indigenous trees, shrubs, grass with a verge of wildflowers to attract butterflies. Luckily FoCP […]
My name is Sofia, and I’m in Nairobi for a month for work. Given how busy the schedule is, it’s hard to get out of town over the weekends, making City Park the perfect place to escape to… right in Nairobi. It’s great to find this green oasis in Nairobi. The park was full of […]
In March 2017, a number of mature trees were felled on the edge of City Park to make way for a new advertising board. The tree felling was illegal, the advertising board did not have planning permission. Thankfully, the illegality of the activity was pointed out by the then Karura Member of the County Assembly, […]
To mark World Environment Day, on June 5th, about 200 volunteers, mainly youth, came together to clean up City Park. The efforts focused around the central lawns and fishpond and in the green space opposite the market. Photo above: A section of the clean-up team [Photo: Anthony Ochieng] The clean-up was coordinated with the efforts […]
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