How loggers and Kenya Forest Service officials collude to deplete forests

A resident of Kiamuriuki section of Mt Kenya forest examines some of the timber worth millions of shillings loggers abandoned after they flushed them out of the area for failing to include the community to share harvesting benefits of mature exotic trees estmated at Sh 100 million on a 35-acre block. (PHOTO: MUNENE KAMAU/ STANDARD)

Illegal loggers have compromised forest rangers to deplete large sections of forests in Mt Kenya region.

The schemes to deplete the natural resources are plotted by some Kenya Forest Service (KFS) officials who drop the guard to allow commercial saw millers to harvest more mature trees than they are allowed.