Activists outraged by Kenyan biofuel plans on fragile wetland

NAIROBI (AFP)

Handing over of the delta to state-owned Mumias Sugar Company for sugarcane plantation endangers more than 350 bird species, lions, hippos, nesting turtles and Tana red colobus, one of 25 primates facing extinction worldwide, they said.

The groups commissioned a study in May that concluded there would be “irreversible loss of ecosystem services” if the project goes ahead to establish an estate sugarcane plantation, outgrower system, a sugar factory and 34 megawatt power plant as well as an ethanol production plant.

Agence France-Presse