Growing Valentine’s Day roses harming Kenya’s ecological site

Guardian: Consumer appetite for cut-price Kenyan roses for Valentine's Day is "bleeding the country dry" by threatening the region's precarious ecology. University of Leicester ecology and conservation biologist, Dr David Harper, warned. Harper has spent over 30 years researching wetland conservation at Kenya's Lake Naivasha and said the growth of the flowers is draining the valuable water supply. Seventy per cent of roses sold in European supermarkets come from Kenya, most from Naivasha. Harper called......

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