New tricks by loggers cut down number of cedar trees

Unscrupulous loggers have descended on the 90-year-old Cedar forest as they conduct wanton illegal logging activities that have seen several indigenous trees disappear in the night.

Logging of the endangered red cedar is going on in parts of Mt Kenya Forest despite a ban in public and community forests.

Loggers in Nyeri, who are indiscriminately cutting down the trees in Kabaru Forest, have devised new tactics to hide the destruction.