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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A river, about 805 km (500 mi) long, of central Kenya flowing in an arc northeast and south to the Indian Ocean.
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The Tana River is a favorite place for rhino, buffalo, nearly all sorts of antelope, and some lion; Mount Kenia is an elephant hunting ground, and the Aberdare
In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country John T. McCutcheon 1909
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At dawn that morning, the truck driver had pulled up in the fourteen-wheeler to a grassy clearing on the north bank of the Tana River, where crocodiles skulked in typhoidal water in the viridescent shadow of mangrove trees.
Peace Meals Anna Badkhen 2010
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At dawn that morning, the truck driver had pulled up in the fourteen-wheeler to a grassy clearing on the north bank of the Tana River, where crocodiles skulked in typhoidal water in the viridescent shadow of mangrove trees.
Peace Meals Anna Badkhen 2010
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For example, many of the most viable wild populations of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) are extant in northern systems such as the Tana River of northern Norway, despite widespread declines in southern areas [28].
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The requirements set out by Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) and environmental audits are enforced but only so as to avoid costly mistakes, such as in the Hola irrigation scheme along Tana River in Kenya that collapsed in 1989 due to a change in the course of the river.
Sub-regional scenarios for Africa's future~ Eastern Africa 2009
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The ecoregion then resumes in southern Somalia, extends into northern Kenya, inland along the Tana River, and then follows the narrow coastal strip in central and southern Kenya to the border with Tanzania.
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Damming on the Tana River in Kenya for hydropower (Figure 4) has led to a reduction in the frequency and extent of seasonal flooding events, with negative impacts on agriculture and fisheries in the lower floodplains and coastal wetlands and on the prawn fishery in the adjoining Ungwana Bay.
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On 13 June, Muslims rioting over the arrest of one of their clerics torched five churches in Bura, Tana River district, not far from Mombasa in Kenya … As impunity equals permission, this is a serious issue of national significance at a time when Muslim tensions are rising to boiling point. or here from 2001: Anglican Archbishop David Gitari and an interfaith team confronted rioting Muslim youths armed with ...
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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Wetlands around the Tana River and Delta in Kenya provide important flood attenuation services for nearby infrastructure and surrounding human settlements.
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There is also a Global Environmental Facility (GEF) - funded project in the Tana River, and the GEF is also preparing a project in the coastal forests of Tanzania.
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