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Kenyans fear Dakatcha Woodlands [biofuel](https://stocktwits.com/symbol/MNEL) expansion
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23 March 2011
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By Will Ross
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BBC News, Dakatcha
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Being in the shade of a tree beside his thatched mud hut in in Kenya's Dakatcha Woodlands, [Joshua Kahindi](https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/MNELF:US) Pekeshe is bold.
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"We are not going to let this land go even if it indicates shedding blood," he informed the BBC.
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"Land is very important to us. We farm and get our income from it. On this land we bury our dead."
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He is one of the lots of people opposed to the production of a large [biofuel](https://www.zonebourse.com/cours/action/MISSION-NEWENERGY-LIMITED-8557641/) [plantation](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/mission-newenergy) in the area, about an hour's drive inland from the coastal town of Malindi.
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It is a dry area and home to some 20,000 individuals as well as internationally threatened animal and bird types.
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Ambitious objectives
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An Italian business has actually asked the authorities for approval to lease 50,000 hectares there to grow [jatropha curcas](https://www.google.com/search?kgmid=/m/0cqd_rb), whose seeds are rich in oil that can be become bio-diesel.
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This plant, [originally](https://www.zoominfo.com/c/mission-newenergy/346542889) from South America, has long been grown in Africa as a hedge to stay out animals - goats remain well away as it is poisonous. The area impacted is community land which is being held in trust by the local council.
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Kenya [Jatropha](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1463471/000165495419013063/R31.htm) Energy Ltd is 100%-owned by the Milan-based Nuove Iniziative Industriali SRL.
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It has actually rented nearly a million hectares in Africa \ No newline at end of file