The versatile plant is also used for construction, to make musical instruments ... So, farmers in the village of Madi are planting bamboo forests along the banks of streams that block floods and stop ...

Lumbres said the goal is to plant "bayog" and the "giant" bamboo ... has found interest in the university's revival of its bamboo forest area during their visit to the school last December.

East Africa is home to the largest natural bamboo forests in Africa ... The fire, blamed on farmers clearing an area to plant marijuana, threatens one of the five highland areas known as Kenya's ...