Kenya takes steps to protect environment

IT is a dawn for a new era n Kenya. A total reawakening in thinking, approach and implementation of policy in the public sector by the new administration.
And in a sector charged with the sustainable utilisation and management of the country’s natural resources-the very core of survival -things had gone out of control with the wanton destruction of forests, water catchment areas, land and callous misuse and abuse of the scarce natural treasures.
But now the new administration in Nairobi appears keen to redress the concerns of evident environmental degradation and abuse in order to preserve the country’s future. In the words of the coutry’s new Environment, Natural Resources and Wildlife Minister, Dr Newton Kulundu, rehabilitation, reclaimation, regeneration, reconstruction and revival of the Kenyan environment is a top priority.

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Toepfer calls for safe and equitable biotech adoption

ADVANCES in bio-engineering, in cluding genetic modification, should be implemented in a safe and equitable manner to safeguard the developing countries from environmental dangers.
The United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) Executive Director, Dr Klaus Toepfer, in his opening speech at the 22nd session of the governing council and global ministerial environmental forum in Nairobi., stressed that time was now ripe to take advantage of the potential of the rapid technological advances so far made and harnessed for the benefit of mankind.
Dr Toepfer said sound environmental action must be based on a sound scientific knowledge base, adding that this will therefore call for the need to radically increase the ability to monitor and map environmental change to avoid conflict and enable international co-operation.

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