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What Kenya’s wildlife needs most is water––not “fake news”

February 28, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Rumors of death penalty for poachers never held water,  Agence France Presse reports––but Patrick Mwalua’s projects do             VOI, Kenya––Rumors stoked since April 2018 by a Xinhua news agency report that Kenya will soon introduce the death penalty for poachers not only have no legal or legislative foundation,   as ANIMALS 24-7 reported in February 2019,  […]

Filed Under: Africa, Africa, African wildlife, Conservation, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Kenya, Poaching & trafficking, Sub-Saharan, Wildlife Tagged With: Daphne Sheldrick, Gitau Mbaria, Merritt Clifton, Nijab Balala, Patrick Kilonzo Mwalua, Richard Leakey

Drought-driven land invasions hit Kenya wildlife conservancies

March 17, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Will Kenya go the way of Zimbabwe? (See also The untold story of the conflict in Laikipia,  by Sebastian Mwanza and Kenya crisis shows need to transition out of animal agriculture.)          NAIROBI,  Kenya––What will become of wildlife and wildlife tourism in central Kenya? “Wild West” conditions driven by drought and political and ethnic rivalries have […]

Filed Under: Africa, African species, African wildlife, Cattle & dairy, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Food, Habitat, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Kenya, Meat issues, Sub-Saharan, Wildlife, Zimbabwe Tagged With: Daphne Sheldrick, Gitau Mbaria, Job Weru, John Muchangi, Josphat Ngonyo, Maria Dodds, Merritt Clifton, Rasna Warah, Tristan Voorspuy

Kenya crisis shows need to transition out of animal agriculture

March 17, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

The issue is not just grazers vs. wildlife U.S. and European concern over the drought-driven conflict besetting central Kenya in early 2017 tends to focus on the impacts afflicting wildlife,  wildlife habitat,  and eco-tourism. This is understandable because these are the aspects of Kenya most often seen by outsiders,  as viewers of wildlife documentaries,  films […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, Africa, African species, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Cattle & dairy, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Editorials, Endangered species, Ethiopia, Food security, Global, Habitat, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Kenya, Opinions & Letters, Poaching & trafficking, Sub-Saharan, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Wildlife Tagged With: Gitau Mbaria, Josphat Ngonyo, Merritt Clifton, Rasna Warah, Sebastian Mwanza

Why shoot-to-kill doesn’t stop poaching

June 26, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

Kenya ranger ambushed NAIROBI––Paul Harrison Lelesepei, 25, a Kenya Wildlife Service ranger stationed at the Ol Jorgi Ranch in Laikipia North, was killed in a June 2, 2014 shootout with suspected rhino poachers. Lelesepei’s death demonstrated the futility of trying to protect wildlife with policies that had already made more enemies than friends back in […]

Filed Under: Africa, Kenya, Sub-Saharan Tagged With: David Gies, Gitau Mbaria, Merritt Clifton, Paul Lelesepei

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