Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta has issued a decree to save a much-loved century-old fig tree from being cut down to make way ... The East African nation’s roads agency had said in October ...

In our series of letters from African ... the fig tree known as "mugumo" has traditionally been a shrine, a place of worship and sacrifices. The Kikuyu do not allow a fig tree to be cut down ...

The announcement was a victory for both environmentalists and cultural leaders in Kenya who denounced the efforts to cut or relocate the fig tree ... the East Africa lead for Purpose Climate ...

A crowd of Teneriffe locals stood by watching and filming the large tree being cut down branch-by-branch and turned into wood chips. One of Teneriffe's Moreton Bay fig trees was getting cut down ...