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12 March 2009

An update from Serah Munguti, Nature Kenya ...

Court case

On 11th July 2008 the High Court (in Malindi) issued an injunction against the Tana Integrated Sugar Project.

To download a copy of the Malindi High Court orders, please click on the links below:

Tana court orders, page 1 Tana court orders, page 2 Tana court orders, page 3

The case was heard at the Malindi High Court on 19th Feb.  There was a strong push from the government to have the stay orders lifted, but they were upheld.  The case will come to court again in April 2009.

The Kenya Wetlands forum addressed a press conference on 2nd March, to raise concerns about a new river chanel that the government has been digging. This is an attempt to restore water supply to more than 40,000 people left without water when the river changed course in August 2008. The KWF's concern is that the new channel is being dug without an EIA, local communities were not consulted and are being forcibly evicted, and a minority group called Malakote will be left in an island from where children will have to cross two rivers to go to school. The press conference received coverage from K24, Nation newspaper, The Nairobi Star and several radio stations.

Publicity

The Tana Delta film is now complete and available to download as a series of 14 video clips.  Watch videos

Financial support

The campaign to save the Tana River Delta is kindly supported by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (BirdLife in UK), Schweizer Vogelschutz SVS/BirdLife Schweiz (Swiss BirdLife partner) and DOF (BirdLife in Denmark).

Thank you for your support

The media has maintained an interest in the Tana Delta sugar project.  To view recent publicity please click here.

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