While the most recent Tsunami has spared the coastal areas of Kenya and the tidal waves nowhere reached above the high-water mark, the threat to the coastal ecosystems continues to come from within. Though inshore trawling was banned along the Kenyan coast - after many years of struggle by environmentally concerned organizations and citizens and already under the former government of then President Daniel Arap Moi - the new Kenya Government seems to disregard all decrees and agreements as well as its own political commitment towards poverty eradication as well as the respective Millennium Goals it signed at the United Nations.