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High above sea level, amid a lush green canopy, cedar, podo and hegeina trees adorn the landscape, draped with thick moss and delicate lichen. Streams...

In a dense layer of green thousands of feet above sea level, cedar, podo and hegeina trees pattern the landscape, thick moss hanging from their branches and feathery lichen attached to their barks. This is the Aberdare Range, a forest and mountain range in central Kenya that’s one of the country’s main water sources and a key wildlife habitat. The Kenyan government wants to build a 32-mile tarmac road to connect two counties, and the country’s environmental agency, the National Environment Management Authority, issued an environmental impact assessment license for the pr...

Following pressure from Kenya's president, the national environment authority has issued a license for the construction of a tarmac road through the forested Aberdare range, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Residents are optimistic the project could improve their lives. But scientists and conservationists fear irreparable damage to the ecosystem.

Kenya wants to build a road through a forest that would benefit its people, but scientists worry about ecosystem damage.