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Biofuel Crop Expansion Will Destroy Important Kenyan Coastal Wetland

image courtesy of Vrije Universiteit BrusselA recently approved plan by the Kenyan government to expand sugarcane cultivation for biofuels in the Tana River Delta will devastate this important coastal wetland, according to The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. The plan calls for more than 80 square miles of wetland to be destroyed and replaced with sugarcane plantations....

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