Help us save the Tana River Delta, Kenya

Two huge new sugar plantations are being planned for the northern Kenya coast, as well as new sugar factories and bio-fuel plants which will have massively damaging environmental and social impacts. The project threatens to destroy one of the biggest freshwater wetlands in Kenya: the Tana River Delta, 150 km north of Watamu. The large local community, primarily pastoralists whose culture has evolved around the seasonal ebb and flow of the wetlands, is campaigning hard to save their way of life. A Rocha Kenya, working closely with other conservation organisations, has also objected. Despite this, in early June the National Environment Management Authority of the Kenya government accepted an Environmental Impact Assessment and granted a licence for the project to go ahead. The only option now is for the conservation groups to go to the High Court together in a bid to put a stop to the project - and for this, we need your help:

• Learn more by visiting the Tana River Delta website and Wildlife Direct
• Send an e-mail of support from the Tana River Delta website
• If you pray, then please pray for the delta’s survival and for all those striving to protect it.

Related link: Tana River Delta website