Posted in Kenya, climate change, global warming, vanishing wildlife, tagged climate change, drought, food shortages, global warming, human population, hunger, overpopulation, wildlife on October 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
BLOG ACTION DAY
A powerful guest post by blogger Not Honey
No one likes to talk about human overpopulation as the number one crisis facing our planet. Environmentalists and wildlife protectors may not like to talk about it because they likely have children, and there’s the idea that having as many kids as you want is a [...]
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Posted in Kenya, environment, global warming, vanishing wildlife, tagged Africa, Camps International, elephants, flipflop whale, flipflop whale shark, Kenya, marine pollution, poaching, snares on August 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I posted some time ago about Mfalme, the Minke whale made of discarded flipflops gathered by volunteers from the beaches of Kenya.
What a beautiful boy he is and what a shame he was fated to be beached in a park in Mombasa instead of touring museums worldwide to educate about marine pollution and resultant death [...]
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also dedicated to Mama Maskini
Poem adapted from “Wearin of the Green”
Who knew the lyrics of this old 18th century, anonymous Irish rebellion song would be so readily adaptable to the Kenyan struggle to root out oppression, corruption and hypocrisy. Here is my tribute to the Kenyan blogger.
The Wearin’ of the Tee
O’ UNEP dears, and [...]
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It’s all a load of trash:
Whale with a message beached in Mombasa
by Dipesh Pabari
For a video by the BBC on this story, click here
Once upon a time when I worked for something that paid well but did not achieve very much (that something has the letters ‘g” and ‘n’ and ‘o’), I had the rather [...]
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