Having lived at the coast for a very long time I am shocked, alarmed, and heart broken that the government is selling our most precious areas of biodiversity, if its not the NEMA APPROVED Southern Bypass across Nairobi Park, oil in Turkana, Lamu LAPPSETT dredging our rare coastal marine ecosystems, geothermal energy exploitation that has totally destroyed Hells Gate NP, Standard Gauge Railway in Tsavo, mushrooming developments in Masai Mara (All NEMA approved!), and now this the drilling of oil in Arabuko Sokoke Forest - one of the rarest forests in the world, a forest vital to the indigenous people of the coast who use it for medicinal and spiritual purposes, livelihoods (through butterfly breeding and tourism), and home to elephants and the critically endangered Senge (Golden Rumped Elephant Shrew). Conservationists at the coast are now saying that the EIA process is flawed and want the work stopped immediately but it seems development interests are just running roughshod over all of our conservation needs - what we need is an oversight agency like in the US, NEMA is totally compromised the-star.co.ke/news/outcry-oil-explorers-now-enter-coasts-biggest-forest It is so heartbreaking that our own environmental agency is right at the heart of the destruction of our environmental assets.
Posted on: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 05:33:55 +0000