News and Media
2007
Land and Environment Law Reports
At a colourful ceremony at the Whitesands Hotel, The Chief Justice Hon Evan Gicheru launched the Land and Environment Reports. Publication of the collection, which highlights Kenya's environmental case law in book and electronic form, was necessitated by the need for strict monitoring of environmental management.
The launch of the reports marked the commencement of comprehensive monitoring and reporting of environmental law. This information will help the public, judicial officers, legal practitioners and environmental management organizations in application, interpretation and enforcement of environmental law. Read more.
2006
Africa’s Dilemma: The GM Struggle
A leading Nairobi-based environmental lawyer, Odhiambo MakOloo, says it is wrong for research on GM crops to go on in Africa knowing very well most of these countries have no legal or regulatory frameworks to take care of the side effects of GMO products. Read more.
2005
Maasai: Risk of Conflict Increasing in Kenya
Suppressing ethnic diversity and forcing minorities into poverty and politically marginalized, is the quickest route to conflict, explains Maurice Odhiambo Makoloo. Learn more.
2004
Tread Carefully on Genetically Modified Organisms/Foods
As with any new product, the impacts of GMOs on people, on animals, and on the environment are difficult to predict, so it is important that the potential risks be evaluated before GMOs are approved for release, explains Maurice Odhiambo Makoloo. Read more
2003
Protecting Forests in Kenya
E-LAW advocates at the Institute for Law and Environmental Governance (ILEG) in Nairobi, Kenya, successfully delayed government's plans to remove protection for 10% of Kenya's remaining forests. The Government of Kenya planned to excise and "degazette" 167,000 acres of forest. The proposed deforestation would have devastating effects on ecosystems throughout the country and region. Kenya's forests provide habitat for many species including the black and white colobus monkey, a threatened species on the 2000 Red List issued by The World Conservation Union (IUCN).
Maurice Odhiambo Makoloo reports that ILEG, working with other lawyers and representing many citizens and organizations, filed a precedent-setting case in the High Court of Kenya in Nairobi and obtained a temporary injunction halting plans to cut the forests.
E-LAW U.S. and partners in Zambia, Tanzania, the U.K., and Sri Lanka provided ILEG with legal and scientific information to support the case. The case alleged that the Kenyan government took these actions without following proper procedures. The case has delayed the forest excision for many months and now a new more environmentally friendly government is reconsidering the plan. A hearing scheduled for May 2003 was postponed but the injunction still stands. Source: E-LAW Advocate - More
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