Report illegal logging, a forest fire or forest encroachment to KFS
Kenya Forest Service · sources read 2 Oct 2026
Call the KFS toll-free line 0800 721 277 (Monday to Friday, 8am to 5pm) or email info@kenyaforestservice.org. You can also call or email the KFS conservancy office for your region.
- Fee
- We couldn't confirm a fee from the official page. Check it there before you pay.
- Where
- By phone or email to KFS: toll-free line, headquarters or your regional conservancy office
Steps
- Call KFS free on 0800 721 277, Monday to Friday, 8am to 5pm. Say what is happening, the forest and the exact place.
- Or contact the KFS conservancy office for your region (Nairobi, Central Highlands, Eastern, North Eastern, Ewaso North, Coast, Mau, North Rift, Western or Nyanza). Their phone numbers and emails are on the KFS Contact Us page.
- You can also reach KFS headquarters at Karura on 020-2014663 or 020-2020285, or email info@kenyaforestservice.org.
Watch out
- The toll-free line is closed on Saturday and Sunday. At weekends, call the conservancy office for your region.
- Cutting, burning or carrying away trees or other forest produce in a public forest without a KFS licence, permit or agreement is an offence.
- If a KFS officer doesn't act, write to the head of KFS (director@kenyaforestservice.org) or to the Commission on Administrative Justice (complain@ombudsman.go.ke).
Official sources (3)
- Contact Us kenyaforestservice.org · read 2 Oct 2026
- Forest Conservation and Management Act, No. 34 of 2016 kenyaforestservice.org · read 2 Oct 2026
- Mkataba wa Huduma (KFS Service Charter, Kiswahili version) kenyaforestservice.org · read 2 Oct 2026