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Kenyans fear Dakatcha Woodlands biofuel 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 next to his thatched mud hut in in Kenya's Dakatcha Woodlands, Joshua Kahindi Pekeshe is defiant.
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"We are not going to let this land go even if it suggests shedding blood," he told the BBC.
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"Land is really essential to us. We farm and get our livelihood from it. On this land we bury our dead."
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He is one of the lots of people opposed to the creation of a large [biofuel](https://stocktwits.com/symbol/MNEL) plantation in the location, about an hour's drive inland from the seaside town of Malindi.
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It is a dry location and home to some 20,000 people as well as worldwide threatened animal and bird species.
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Ambitious objectives
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An Italian company has asked the authorities for approval to rent 50,000 hectares there to grow [jatropha curcas](https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/159352/mission-newenergy-debt-free-focused-on-biofuel-joint-venture-60797.html), whose seeds are rich in oil that can be turned into bio-diesel.
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This plant, initially from South America, has long been grown in Africa as a hedge to stay out animals - goats remain well away as it is toxic. The location impacted is neighborhood land which is being held in trust by the regional 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](https://www.zonebourse.com/cours/action/MISSION-NEWENERGY-LIMITED-8557641/).
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It has [leased practically](https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/MNELF:US) a million hectares in Africa
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