The park lies some 100 kilometres (60 miles) north of the capital Nairobi in the Aberdare mountain range. "Definitely it is a fire caused by human activities," Mwangi said, as speculation mounted about the possibility of arson. So far so good, they are managing to control it but it has not been completed," Rhino Ark official Adam Mwangi told AFP. "We have firefighters who are doing a decent job up there. "Thirty-five trained firefighters have been deployed by chopper on the southern fireline," the group said on Twitter Monday. Rhino Ark, a conservation charity in Kenya, said it had sent in helicopters to conduct aerial surveys of the area to estimate the extent of damage to the forest cover. The park was etched in history when Britain's Elizabeth II, then a princess on a visit to Kenya, received news of her father's death while staying at the Treetops hotel, a remote game-watching lodge built high into a tree in the Aberdare forest. The fire started on Saturday and was still ravaging the park some 36 hours later, as firefighters sought to bring it under control before it spread deeper into the forest. Dozens of forest rangers, firefighters and volunteers struggled on Monday to stem a blaze that broke out in Kenya's Aberdare national park at the weekend, as suspicions of arson emerged.
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