Biofuels War: The New Scramble for Africa by Western Big Money Profiteers
EcoWordly.com - September 7, 2008

Editor's Note: The original news about iofuel projects encroaching on the Babile Elephant Sanctuary first appeared here.

Biofuels war has broken out in Africa. Newspaper headlines have not proclaimed it but the gist of it is already out. Big money profiteers from Europe and United States are rushing to Africa in a new scramble for the continent, transforming large swathes of arable land into massive biofuels plantations.

Endangered wildlife are not spared too. It is claimed one European investor has been granted 13,000 hectares of land in Oromia state; 87% of which is the Babile Elephant Sanctuary, a home to rare and endangered elephants. Read More.