EcoBuzz: Monkey Business

It’s good to have groups like the Colobus Trust. These are passionate individuals who keep an eye on matters related to their cause whilst the rest of us carry on with our day to day lives. With really important issues such as delivering on poverty reduction, energy access, education and infrastructure rightly at the top of Government’s agenda, it’s important to have people watching out for the interests of those who cannot speak for themselves. Four colobus monkeys and one little baboon were electrocuted last week near a small stretch of Kaya forest in Diani. Why should we care amidst all the problems that face us? Well first, there is a simple and easy solution, and second, our wildlife and natural resources are valuable national assets that require our protection. What happened in Diani is not just monkey business. It’s a disgrace. http://colobus.wildlifedirect.org/2009/01/09/conserving-diani-thinking-triggered-by-the-electrocution-of-a-young-baboon/

Ecobuzz: Climate Change

This year it’s all about climate change. Towards the end of the year in Copenhagen, the world convenes to re-negotiate the rights and responsibilities of countries in dealing with this global threat. Actually, these end up being your rights and responsibilities as an individual, an employee, a company, an association, an MP.....and it would be appropriate in all these capacities, to tell our Government climate negotiators what we expect. Consider this: starving cattle, destroyed livelihoods, dying wildlife and yet the continued extraction of water for supply to a lodge swimming pool - all in the same ecosystem. What’s the response? For tourists to chose not to travel? For cattle insurance schemes for the pastoralists? Developing better water infrastructure to cope with drought extremes? Kenyans need to think for ourselves on these types of scenarios in all spheres, because no one else is going to do it for us. http://moreintelligentlife.com/story/going-green-making-global-warming-hot