Kenyan school children using slingshots to plant trees

AP  |  Nairobi 

School children in are helping to fight by planting seeds using slingshots.

It's part of an initiative by the company SeedBalls Kenya, which makes and sells seedballs globally.

It encourages children to have competitions using the charcoal-covered seeds instead of stones.

About 2 million seedballs have been planted in in the past year and a half in what has been called "guerrilla gardening."

has recognized the threat from and earlier this year imposed a temporary logging ban that was extended in May by another six months.

recycles coal dust it collects around the capital, It buys the seeds from the Kenya

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First Published: Sun, July 22 2018. 16:25 IST