Abstract: Urbanization is a complex and dynamic process playing out over multiple scales of space and time. In addition to being increasingly physically expansive, urban land change is also predominantly characterized by peri-urbanization, the process whereby rural areas both close to and distant from city center become enveloped by, or transformed into, extended metropolitan regions. This present study focused on the peri-urban establishment of Kajulu-Riat hill area within Kisumu City in Kenya. It focused on the conservation strategies on tree and shrub diversity and how it is affected by other urban socio-economic dynamics. The study population comprised a sample of 384 persons within the geographical areas of kajulu and Riat peri-urban.