{"id":11107,"date":"2020-09-25T09:13:41","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T06:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=11107"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:31:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:31:15","slug":"kenya-thousands-of-fish-killed-in-river-tanas-environmental-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/09\/25\/kenya-thousands-of-fish-killed-in-river-tanas-environmental-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Thousands of Fish Killed in River Tana&#8217;s Environmental Disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than 1,000 fish of different varieties have died in one of the biggest environmental catastrophies to hit the River Tana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This follows efforts by locals in Tana River to block salty water intrusion from the six kilometer Matomba brook into the River Tana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nation witnessed the magnitude of the of the incident at Chara Village in Tana Delta where tonnes of fish have died along the river.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The River Tana is the life blood of much of Tana Delta&#8217;s agriculture industry and supports thousands of communities in Garsen, Kilelengwani, Shirikisho and Chara.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Villagers resorted to blocking the brooks infiltrating the river with saline water, leaving behind a trail of destruction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The locals claim government officials, despite visiting the area a year ago and having witnessed their plight, took no action, leaving them to seek their own solutions. <a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202009240801.html\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 1,000 fish of different varieties have died in one of the biggest environmental catastrophies to hit the River Tana. This follows efforts by locals in Tana River to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}