Kenya: 1/13 of 13
How to… buy cut flowers
Rebecca Campbell
16th March, 2012
Sunday is Mother's Day, which for many of us, means flowers. But how green are your blooms and can you really get a bunch that doesn’t come with a price for the planet? more...
With the death of Wangari Maathai, the green movement has lost one of its greatest proponents
Ruth Styles
7th October, 2011
Environmentalist, democracy campaigner and Nobel laureate; Wangari Maathai led an extraordinary life but it's her overwhelming kindness and charm that I’ll always remember, says Ruth Styles more...
Shot, face hacked off, tusks stolen... horror of the elephants butchered for their ivory
Mary Rice
26th September, 2011
More than 3000 elephants may have been slaughtered in 2011 so far - and that's just those we know about. In Kenya, Mary Rice from the Environmental Investigation Agency witnesses the bloody reality of the global ivory trade more...
Does Kenya need GM crops as it battles famine in the Horn of Africa?
Rosie Spinks
8th September, 2011
In the midst of a dire need to feed millions of people facing hunger because of drought, Kenya's newly passed Biosafety Act allows for the importation of GM crops - but at what cost? more...
Walking Thunder: In the Footsteps of the African Elephant
Ruth Styles
28th July, 2011
Cyril Christo and Marie Wilkinson’s stunning images highlight the luminous beauty of Africa’s elephants, says Ruth Styles, and show why ending the ivory trade is more important than ever more...
Among necessary giants: why we can’t afford to lose the elephant
Cyril Christo and Marie Wilkinson
27th July, 2011
Cyril Christo and Marie Wilkinson, authors of Walking Thunder, explain why the survival of the elephant is critical for our own future more...
Chinese-backed Kenyan 'super port' could devastate UNESCO island
Tafline Laylin
14th December, 2010
Wide-ranging plans to link up Kenya, Ethiopia and Southern Sudan include the building of a port which threatens the Lamu district's indigenous coastal communities and fragile ecology, reports Tafline Laylin more...
Green weddings: how to get married ethically
Eifion Rees
3rd December, 2010
Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to celebrate the coming together of marriage and environmentalism. Do you, reader, take this, the Ecologist, to be your guide to environmentally friendly weddings... more...
No stopping controversial dam in Ethiopia
Ecologist
26th March, 2010
Controversial dam project on the Omo River in southern Ethiopia cannot be stopped says African Development Bank more...
Wangari Maathai: fighting for Kenya's environment
Nicola Graydon
1st March, 2005
Wangari Maathai’s Nobel prize-winning activism has thrust the environment to the forefront of the global security agenda more...
Behind the Label: cut flowers
Pat Thomas
18th August, 2009
What's the real price of your bouquet? Pat Thomas dishes the dirt on cut flower production in less-industrialised countries more...
Extent of agricultural land-grab revealed on new website
Eifion Rees
22nd June, 2009
With rich, resource-poor nations increasingly outsourcing their food production to less developed nations, a new website aims to expose the extent of the agricultural land-grab epidemic more...
Kenya: 1/13 of 13
Say It Without Flowers
Venetia Hargreaves-Allen
1st October, 2003
Say: ‘I am happy to pay for environmental degradation, chronic illness and labour rights abuses in countries that grow flowers for Western consumers but cannot feed their own people.’ more...
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