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+<br>Kenyans fear Dakatcha [Woodlands biofuel](https://www.google.com/search?kgmid=/m/0cqd_rb) growth<br>
+<br>23 March 2011<br>
+<br>By Will Ross<br>
+<br>BBC News, Dakatcha<br>
+<br>Sitting in the shade of a tree next to his [thatched mud](https://www.google.com/search?kgmid=/m/0cqd_rb) hut in in Kenya's Dakatcha Woodlands, Joshua Kahindi Pekeshe is defiant.<br>
+<br>"We are not going to let this land go even if it suggests shedding blood," he informed the BBC.<br>
+<br>"Land is really essential to us. We farm and get our income from it. On this land we bury our dead."<br>
+<br>He is among the many people opposed to the development of a large [biofuel](https://www.businessnews.com.au/Company/Mission-NewEnergy) plantation in the area, about an hour's drive inland from the coastal town of Malindi.<br>
+<br>It is an arid area and home to some 20,000 [individuals](https://www.pinterest.com.au/missionnewenergy/) in addition to internationally threatened animal and bird types.<br>
+<br>Ambitious objectives<br>
+<br>An Italian company has actually asked the authorities for authorization to lease 50,000 hectares there to grow [jatropha curcas](https://www.energy-xprt.com/companies/mission-newenergy-limited-36048), whose seeds are rich in oil that can be become bio-diesel.<br>
+<br>This plant, originally from South America, has actually long been grown in Africa as a hedge to stay out animals - goats stay well away as it is poisonous. The area affected is  which is being kept in trust by the regional council.<br>
+<br>Kenya [jatropha curcas](https://www.pinterest.com.au/missionnewenergy/) Energy Ltd is 100%-owned by the Milan-based Nuove Iniziative Industriali SRL.<br>
+<br>It has rented almost a million hectares in Africa