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Kenya: EU Donates Sh43.6m to Save Environment

The Nation (Nairobi)

14 August 2007

The European Union has donated Sh43.6 million to two projects in Taita Taveta District to boost environmental management and conservation. In addition to sustaining environmental programmes, the two projects will also create agro-economic activities to improve rural livelihoods of the concerned communities.

Community Development Trust Fund projects co-ordinator Njoka Miu, yesterday said the donation was part of the EU’s efforts to ensure the country develops a comprehensive and sustainable environmental system.

Mr Miu presented Sh20.2 million to Taita Environmental Management Alliance for environmental management activities.

The group has initiated a project to rehabilitate degraded parts of Mbololo and Mwambirwa forests an a bid to restore destroyed water catchments zones.

The group will use the money to also promote sustainable land use through setting up of terraces, building gabions and establishing cover crops and contours at rivers.

The EU also gave Sh23.4 million to the Taveta Environment Conservation Alliance to assist in the management and restoration of the degraded Lake Jipe and Kitobo forest and associated river ecosystem in Taveta.

River diversion

The lake and two other rivers are threatened by human activities which cause diversion of rivers that feed it leading to depletion of fish stocks.

The project, EU says, is in support of the Government strategy on environmental management to realise the Millennium Development Goals on conservation and protection of natural resources by 2015.