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Naivasha, Kenya is “a boom town built on a new gold rush: cut flowers”, according to UK Garden Museum Director Christopher Woodward. This week the London Telegraph reported on Woodward’s observations from his recent trip to Kenya: “As you read this, 25,000 workers are picking roses for Valentine’s Day bouquets thousands of miles away.” He […] |
 | Lake Naivasha: Withering Under the Assault of International Flower Vendors Unless they are stopped, the flower agribusiness operations on Lake Naivasha will destroy the lake itself, the community dependent upon it, and the entire ecosystem of the watershed. It is time for consumers in Europe to understand that every time they buy a rose grown on Lake Naivasha, they help destroy – perhaps forever – the exquisite place where Isaak Dinesen’s Out of Africa was filmed |
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