Let the Kenyan government know destroying ecosystems for toxic
sugar monocultures is unethical, and ask them to please follow
their own environmental laws by permanently cancelling the
project.

http://www.climateark.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=kenya_tana_biofuel

Kenya has recently approved plans to destroy some 20,000 acres
of the globally important and ecologically sensitive Tana
Delta for sugar and biofuel production. Covering 130,000
hectares, these wetlands' diverse riverine vegetation --
forests, swamps, dunes, beaches and ocean -- will be forever
altered by widespread vast fields of toxic, monoculture sugar
cane and biofuel mill. The project threatens 350 species
including birds, lions, hippos, nesting turtles, elephants,
sharks, reptiles and the Tana red colobus, one of 25 primates
facing extinction globally. Biofuel production worldwide
continues to destroy crucial natural ecosystems required for
local and global sustainability. While hailed as a climate
change remedy, this destruction of natural habitats for
biofuel production almost always releases more carbon than
saved. Using food such as sugar for fuel has raised food
prices, leading to riots globally, including in Kenya. Please
respectfully request the project be permanently cancelled.

TAKE ACTION NOW:
http://www.climateark.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=kenya_tana_biofuel

DISCUSS THIS ALERT:
http://www.climateark.org/blog/2008/07/alert_biofuels_to_turn_kenyas.asp

By Climate Ark, http://www.climateark.org and
EcoEarth.Info, http://www.ecoearth.info
July 23, 2008