Conservationists protest Kenya’s 20,000 hectare sugarcane ethanol plan; 350 species said to be at risk

In Kenya, a plan to grow sugarcane for ethanol on 20,000 hectares in the Tana River Delta has prompted protests from conservation groups. The Mumias Sugar Company plans to establish a plantation, 34 MW power plant and an ethanol mill 80 miles north of Mombasa, and conservation groups said that up to 350 species of wildlife could be endangered by the project.

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