Date & Time: Apr 23, 2026 10:00 AM in Mountain Time (US and Canada)

Description: Kenya has an ambitious plan to grow 15 billion trees by 2032; however, the major challenge remains the availability of and accessibility to quality germplasm resources in sufficient quantities to meet this goal. Restoration seed banks have the potential to catalyse the country’s landscape restoration by ensuring a consistent supply of high-quality native tree seeds for biodiversity, climate-resilience and community livelihood. The Centre for Ecosystem Restoration Kenya advances ecological restoration in Kenya by empowering community seed collector networks and integrating threatened tree species into planting programmes through capacity building on best practices of native tree germplasm and mentoring projects to embrace best practices of ecological restoration.