The Kericho County Forest Conservation and Management Act, no. 3 of 2021.

This Act, divided into eleven Parts and consisting of 62 sections, applies to all forests within the County on public, community and private lands, and provides for improving conservation, sustainable management and rational utilisation of all forest resources in the County, in order to ensure the socio-economic development of the County. The Act concerns: community forest association; concession agreement; customary rights; ecosystem; forest concession; nature reserve; protected tree; private forest; timber licence. The Act follows these guiding principles: good governance and access to public information; ecosystem approach; recognition of rights and responsibilities of communities and private land owners; benefit sharing.
The Act covers the following matters: establishment, roles and functions of the Forestry Directorate, and the County Forestry Conservation Committee; classification of forests; rules concerning sustainable wood fuel production; management of community and County forests; exchange of forest area with private land; declaration of natural reserves and protected areas; special permission for mining and quarrying activities; application for community participation in forest management; assignment of forest user rights; licensing and trade of forest products, including: timber harvesting, woodfuel production, licence for ecotourism and for carbon trading; forest protection measures; pest and diseases control; control of invasive and alien species; establishment of incentives and subsidies for forest conservation; reforestation programmes; prohibited activities and related penalties.