Uproar in Nyandarua over logging in Aberdare Forest
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There is uproar in
Nyandarua County over ongoing logging activities inside the Aberdare Forest.
Residents and local leaders say tens of lorries have been making their way into
the forest and carting away logs, raising fears of environmental degradation
and the possible loss of a critical water catchment area.
However, forest
authorities and sawmillers have defended the harvesting, maintaining that the
felling of mature and over-mature plantation trees is lawful and forms part of
standard plantation management. So, what exactly is happening inside the Aberdares?
At Geta Forest
Station, Nyandarua, there is a lot of activity. We find lorries emerging from
the forest, their cargo beds filled with logs.
