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Researcher entices farmers with lucrative sandalwood in conservation drive
A police officer guards a pile of illegally harvested sandalwood. PHOTO | FILE
Kenya Forestry Research Institute (Kefri) has come up with new technologies to propagate sandalwood seedlings from its fruit to save the tree species from extinction.
Though popular with smugglers due to its international market value, the sandalwood tree has been protected under a 2007 presidential ban to allow for regeneration but now farmers are encouraged to plant it.
