Kenyan Biofuel Threatens River Delta. BBC, July 2, 2008. "Kenyan environmentalists [say that the Kenyan] government should revoke a decision to allow a controversial biofuels project to go ahead. The project involves growing sugarcane for biofuels in coastal wetlands. The project's backers argue the development in the Tana River Delta will produce ethanol and generate power, providing thousands of jobs. But Nature Kenya says the project threatens the habitat of hundreds of species in the 20,000-hectare site. 'Clearly these species are going to be really negatively impacted,' [said] Sarah Munguti, the organization's spokeswoman... The area, more than 100km (62 miles) north of the port city of Mombasa, has 350 species of birds as well as lions, elephants, rare sharks and reptiles including the Tana writhing skink, according to the UK's Royal Society for the Protection of Birds... The Tana Integrated Sugar Project aims to produce 23 million litres of ethanol a year."
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