The Witu Forest is in Kenya’s Lamu District, located in East Africa. It was established in 1927 due to the merger of the Utwani Forest Reserve and the nearby Gongoni Forest Reserve. However, the old titles continued to be used. The newly independent Kenyan government upheld the reservation by gazetting the forest in 1962, with an additional 701 hectares (1,732 acres) gazetted in 2002. On gazetted land, the forest covers 4,639 hectares (11,463 acres). An additional ungazetted but enclosed forest of roughly 900 hectares (2,224 acres) is not part of the forest. The Nairobi Ranch’s nearby Mungajini Forest covers around 1,100 hectares and is a protected area (2,718 acres). From 2007, there was no management plan for the forest, even though it is to be administered under the Forests Act, 2005, by the Kenya Forest Service, which took over from the previous Forest Department in 2005 and is responsible for the forest’s protection. The Witu Forest is bordered to the northeast and east by the Pangani Swamp. To the east and southeast, the Nairobi Ranch includes the Mungajini Forest. The Witu Forest is connected to the northeast and east by the Pangani Swamp. Witu settlement areas border it on the south and southwest sides of the river. The settlement areas were founded in 1995 to assist the local people’s agricultural growth.