A conversation with Helen Byron, the RSPB’s Senior International Site Casework Officer about the hugely important campaign to protect the Tana River Delta in Kenya (feature photo of Tana River copyright Cheryl-Samantha Owen of http://www.samowenphotography.com).
The Tana River Delta is one of the most important wetlands in Africa and has been described as Africa’s second Okavango Delta. It supports over 350 species of birds, including twenty-two wetland birds found in internationally important numbers, globally threatened birds such as the Endangered Basra Reed Warbler and two threatened primates found nowhere else in the world – the Tana River red colobus and Tana River crested mangabey.
Petition to stop Bedford Biofuels planting jatropha in the Tana Delta: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/bedford-biofuels-to-plant-jetropha-in-the-tana-delta/
Tana River Delta casework page on RSPB website: http://www.rspb.org.uk/ourwork/casework/details.aspx?id=tcm:9-228564
Show Notes
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Links:
- Nature Kenya website: http://www.naturekenya.org/
- The Tana River Delta website: http://www.tanariverdelta.org
- African Bird Club: http://www.africanbirdclub.org
- Sharpe’s Longclaw project on Talking Naturally: /FOKP/
Little Bee-eater, Kenya. Photo © Charlie Moores
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Excellent to have this publicity for the campaign to save the Tana River Delta. The delta is THE most amazing wetland and it would be criminal to have it go under fake biofuel projects. Could you add a link to this post for the http://www.tanariverdelta.org website which is also set up to contribute towards the conservation of the delta.
Hello Colin. I came across Arocha and your website and meant to put up a link but unfortunately didn’t. I’ll rectify that immediately (see revised Links above)