Articles and Press Releases

New scramble for Africa hits Kenyan wildlife oasis

RSPB press release, 24th June 2009

One of the most important wetlands in Africa is under unprecedented threat as corporations and foreign agencies scramble to exploit its riches for export crops and biofuels.  Tens of thousands of people would lose their livelihoods, and globally endangered birds and primates and crucial wintering sites for migratory birds would be lost if a rush of schemes in Kenya’s Tana River Delta goes ahead.  More

Travels in the Tana Delta

By Olivier Hamerlynck, April 2009

We were in the Tana Delta again from March 29th to April 1st 2009...

The Tana Delta is teaming with Palaearctic migrants these days, with large numbers of European Rollers, Golden Orioles and Eurasian Cuckoos living in any area where there are trees.  The derelict wastelands of the failed JICA irrigation scheme (TDIP) are now becoming bushy and small Acacia are sprouting up, with regular Red-backed and Red-tailed Shrikes in all of them... More

Flourishing wetland sacrificed for sugar and biofuels

Statement by Paul Matiku - given during a press conference on 25th June 2008

The National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) has approved a controversial plan to grow sugarcane for sugar and biofuels on an internationally important coastal wetland—the Tana River Delta. More than 20,000 ha of the Tana River Delta will be destroyed and replaced with sugarcane for biofuel. This decision by NEMA will lead to a national environmental and social and economic disaster...  More

Tainting Kenya's Wetland Wilderness - The Sour Side of Sugar

By Cheryl-Samantha Owen, February 2008

The Tana River Delta, one of Kenya’s last coastal wildernesses, is the floodplain ecosystem of the mighty Tana, a river born on the slopes of Mt Kenya that finishes its 1014km journey in East Africa’s Indian Ocean... More

The media has also maintained an interest in the Tana River Delta sugar project.  View recent publicity.
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