A Kenyan High Court on Thursday granted local environmentalists an injunction to prevent authorities allowing forests to be cleared, a television station reported. "The forests that were to be degazetted and allocated to squatters...will remain state property until a case filed against the minister for environment, Francis Nyenze, is heard and determined," Nation television said. Nyenze last month gave a 28-day notice of intent to allocate 68,000 hectares (167,000 acres) of forest land for settlement in locations around Mount Kenya, in the Rift Valley and in Western Kenya.