Safaricom’s M-Pesa Foundation on Friday said it has custom-built the Nairobi Green Line Project to safeguard the Nairobi National Park from more invasion by human development.

The Nairobi Green Line Project is a fencing plan started 36 months ago by the Kenya Association of Manufacturers and the Kenya Wildlife Services.

The Nairobi Green Line Project is a 30km-long and 50m-wide belt made up of a forest of 300,000 indigenous trees extending from the Cheetah Gate in Athi River to the Carnivore restaurant, four kilometres from Nairobi City Centre.

“When completed, it will act as a green buffer between the Nairobi National Park and the negative effects of human civilization,” the Foundation said in a statement.

“In 2011, the M-Pesa Foundation gave a grant of KES 43.67 million [$511,000 ] to fund the planting of 135,659 trees, the construction of picnic sites within the park and a piped water distribution project at the park.”