Posted by: "Jeremy Taylor" jeremyjtaylor@yahoo.com  
jeremyjtaylor 
Wed Apr 25, 2007 2:01 am (PST) 
Kenyans Plant Trees To Coax Back Flamingos
April 23, 2007 — By Jeremy Clarke, Reuters

NAKURU, Kenya -- Five years ago, dead flamingos
littered the drying shores of Lake Nakuru in Kenya's
scenic Rift Valley. Sickly birds struggled to stand
upright while stray dogs scavenged on the depleted
flock. 

The once world-renowned heartland of the majestic
birds -- with their long necks and striking pink,
scarlet and black plumage -- was yet another
depressing symbol of deforestation, pollution and
global warming in Africa. 

But now, after two years fighting to reverse their
role in the damage, Nakuru's local community has set
itself the task of replanting a whole forest they had
razed as a measure of desperation in times of poverty.


They hope that as the flamingos return, so will the
tourists.


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