Work begins to fell 150,000 infected Cwmcarn Forest trees

Natural Resources Wales has felled nearly three million trees across Wales

Work has begun to chop down up to 150,000 larch trees in Caerphilly's Cwmcarn Forest, after they became infected by a fungus-like disease.

It is part of a nationwide strategy to curb the spread of Phytophthora ramorum that has infected approximately 6.7 million larch trees in Wales.

The council-run visitor centre and all other site facilities will remain open.

Natural Resources Wales has felled nearly three million trees across Wales.

The environment body said it plants more than 3 million trees annually with some of these replacing the larch trees that have been felled.