By WAIKWA MAINAMore by this AuthorA fire that started on Wednesday has consumed more than 700 hectares of vegetation at the Aberdare National Park and forest area. The report on Saturday came as the fire at Mt Kenya National Park raged on, after more than a week of destroying over 100,000 hectares of vegetation. “The hardest hit areas are Malewa and the Table Mountain regions of the national park," he said, adding that more than 300 hectares of park land alone had been destroyed. The most affected area is under the national park,” she said. Kenya Forest Service Chief Conservator, Monica Kalenda, was hopeful that the fires in Embu, Laikipia and Tharaka Nithi would be put out.

Source: Daily Nation March 02, 2019 05:55 UTC