Tractors and heavy machinery have begun clearing a section of Ngong Road Forest to make way for a new road, despite significant opposition from conservationists.

• Two-thirds of the original Ngong Road Forest has already been lost due to past developments.
• Conservation groups like the Green Belt Movement and Friends of Nairobi Forests and Green Spaces are raising alarms about this pattern of development encroaching on protected areas.
• Conservationists emphasize that mature forests provide irreplaceable ecological services that cannot be replicated by planting new seedlings.