The land is not in the least bit fertile and yet the cattle herds grow larger and larger. A cow represents capital investment here.
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The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels.
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Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance.
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The problem is that during the 1980s, a decade of heavy poaching, the elephants retreated to safer areas. And now people have moved into the corridors once used by the elephants.
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I would hazard a guess that we have found fossilized human remains of at least a thousand different specimens in South and East Africa, more or less complete at that. I think this is where the prelude to human history was primarily played out.
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Earlier, 100,000 elephants lived in Kenya and we didn't have any noteworthy problem with it. The problem that we have is not that there are now more elephants.
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