Ikal angelei biography sample
Ikal Angelei is one of the world's pre-eminent environmental justice activists: she is the founder of Friends of Lake Turkana, which (as the.
Ikal Angelei is an environmental activist and comes from the Turkana region of northern Kenya....
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Born and raised in the region of Kitale near the Lake Turkana Basin, Ikal Angelei’s father taught her how to understand the conflicts between the communities of Kenya and Ethiopia.
Another lesson he passed down was his belief in opposing the construction of the Turkwell Dam in the 1980s and 90s. Years later, she found out about the construction of another proposed massive dam project in Lake Turkana, Angelei felt a deep responsibility to her childhood community, and traveled back to her homeland to help stop the project.
Lake Turkana is an UNESCO World Heritage Site and the largest desert lake in the world where some of the oldest human fossils have been found.
It houses massive amounts of fish, snakes, hippos, and crocodiles and is the main resource of livelihood for hundreds of thousands of Ind
