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, […]
Drought-driven land invasions hit Kenya wildlife conservancies
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 […]
Kenya crisis shows need to transition out of animal agriculture
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 […]
Why shoot-to-kill doesn’t stop poaching
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 13th century England, […]