Major Kenyan Wetlands To Be Sacrificed For Biofuels

June 27th, 2008

The Kenyan government has approved a controversial plan to grow biofuel crops on an internationally important coastal wetland. More than 80 square miles of the Tana River Delta, which provides refuge for 350 species of birds as well as lions, elephants, rare sharks and reptiles including the Tana writhing skink, will be destroyed and replaced with sugarcane for biofuel, some of which could be sold in the UK where oil firms are being forced to sell more biofuel…