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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>Being in the shade of a tree beside his thatched mud hut in in  Woodlands, [Joshua Kahindi](https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/159352/mission-newenergy-debt-free-focused-on-biofuel-joint-venture-60797.html) Pekeshe is [defiant](https://www.businessnews.com.au/Company/Mission-NewEnergy).<br>
+<br>"We are not going to let this land go even if it indicates shedding blood," he informed the BBC.<br>
+<br>"Land is really essential to us. We farm and get our livelihood from it. On this land we bury our dead."<br>
+<br>He is one of the lots of individuals opposed to the development of a big [biofuel](https://www.proactiveinvestors.com.au/ASX:MBT/Mission-NewEnergy-Ltd) plantation in the location, about an hour's drive inland from the coastal town of Malindi.<br>
+<br>It is an arid location and home to some 20,000 people along with globally threatened animal and bird types.<br>
+<br>Ambitious objectives<br>
+<br>An Italian company has actually asked the authorities for permission to lease 50,000 hectares there to grow [jatropha](https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/ipos/overview?dealId=804419-65608), whose seeds are abundant in oil that can be become bio-diesel.<br>
+<br>This plant, initially from South America, has actually long been grown in Africa as a hedge to stay out animals - goats remain well away as it is harmful. The area affected is community land which is being held in trust by the local council.<br>
+<br>Kenya [jatropha curcas](https://www.google.com/search?kgmid=/m/0cqd_rb) Energy Ltd is 100%-owned by the Milan-based Nuove Iniziative Industriali SRL.<br>
+<br>It has rented almost a million hectares in Africa