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Avaaz petition to stop the Tanzania government from forcefully eviction of Maasai of Loliondo  Avaaz petition to stop Tanzania government from forcefully evicting the Maasai of Loliondo. The case of Maasai of Tanzania is no difference with the case of … Continue reading

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Conserving the wild and poverty among the indigenous! The truth about Wildlife conservation in Kenya. By Ole Ngais. Dear Mparakuoni, I address this to you as a person because for many reasons, unlike our friends over there at k4w, KWS … Continue reading

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  The Holly Month of Ramadan is here. Ramadan Kareem to all my fellow Muslim brothers and sisters. May the Almighty Allah strengthen you through this tough but humbling month. May your thoughts and deeds reflect the good peaceful idea … Continue reading

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Urgent help is needed on this cause. I a m calling on my friends to give a voice and help survival international facilitate the cry of the Omo Tribal people agains the Gibbe Dam in Ethiopia. Please follow the story … Continue reading

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Milking the Rhino Trailer

 

A ferocious kill on the Serengeti… dire warnings about endangered species… These clichés of nature documentaries ignore a key feature of the landscape: villagers just off-camera, who navigate the dangers and costs of living with wildlife on a daily basis. When seen at all, rural Africans are often depicted as the problem — they poach animals and encroach on habitat, they spoil our myth of wild Africa.

Milking the Rhino tells a more nuanced tale of human-wildlife coexistence in post-colonial Africa. The Maasai tribe of Kenya and Namibia’s Himba — two of Earth’s oldest cattle cultures — are in the midst of upheaval. Emerging from a century of “white man conservation,” which turned their lands into game reserves and fueled resentment towards wildlife, Himba and Maasai communities are now vying for a piece of the wildlife-tourism pie.

Community-based conservation, which tries to balance the needs of wildlife and people, has been touted by environmentalists as “win-win.” The reality is more complex. “We never used to benefit from these animals,” a Maasai host of a community eco-lodge explains. “Now we milk them like cattle!” His neighbor disagrees: “A rhino means nothing to me! I can’t kill it for meat like a cow.” And when drought decimates the grass shared by livestock and wildlife, the community’s commitment to conservation is sorely tested.

Charting the collision of ancient ways with Western expectations, Milking the Rhino tells intimate, hopeful and heartbreaking stories of people facing deep cultural change.

Visit the official website: http://www.milkingtherhino.org

Visit the film’s official website, http://www.milkingtherhino.org

http://intercontinentalcry.org/milking-the-rhino-conservation-in-post-colonial-africa/

 

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A CORNER OF A FOREIGN FIELD Around 50 kilometres outside Nanyuki, up on the dry and dusty northern slopes of the Lolldaiga hills in the Great Rift Valley, sits the little village of Il Polei. Anyone who makes the journey … Continue reading

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Dedicated Hosting Starting at $174.95 Why young morans are spoiling for war Published on 27/11/2011 By ted malanda Morans-in-training are in trouble. Not too long ago, they ambushed a village trading centre, beat up everyone in sight and stabbed an … Continue reading

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The tittle should actually read something like this: Unfair distribution of natural resources, The case of Wildlife Conservation in Laikipia County Unfair distribution of natural resources in laikipia county is generating a negative attitude towards wildlife conservation especially following the … Continue reading

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With all due respect to the host, i’m getting to experience the inability to have a balanced debate at the K4W’s forum. To my best understanding the K4W is too “nationalistic” in their approach while I consider myself as a … Continue reading

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This video may well be blocked in certain parts of the world. If it is, i suggest visiting the channel 4 website and seeing if they are still showing it for free on there   Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) has … Continue reading

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The tittle should actually read something like this: Unfair distribution of natural resources, The case of Wildlife Conservation in Laikipia County Unfair distribution of natural resources in laikipia county is generating a negative attitude towards wildlife conservation especially following the … Continue reading

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NAIROBI, Kenya, Nov 10 – President Mwai Kibaki has affirmed government’s commitment to step up conservation activities in the country to protect the country’s wildlife as a national heritage. President Kibaki asserted that the government would in collaboration with key … Continue reading

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Save $20 on Parallels Desktop 7–November 23st-28th AN international human rights group is accusing the Kenya Wildlife Service for continuously trampling on the rights of the Samburu people and scheming to “illegally evict the community from Laikipia East District”. In … Continue reading

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This video may well be blocked in certain parts of the world. If it is, i suggest visiting the channel 4 website and seeing if they are still showing it for free on there  

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  Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) has bought 17,000 acres of land in Nanyuki from former President Moi for Sh400 million to establish a national park as it seeks to grow high-end tourists. Mr Moi has been using the land as … Continue reading

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  By Boniface Ongeri in Liboi and David Ochami in Nairobi   Kenyan troops were by Monday evening moving quickly to secure the town of Afmadow in Somalia, 100 kilometres from the border. It comes just two days after the … Continue reading

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