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Wild life

I’ve put a fence up around my farm, but it doesn’t keep the wildlife out

The destruction of habitat is the greatest threat to wildlife

26 March 2016

9:00 AM

26 March 2016

9:00 AM

Laikipia

‘Awayoo,’ was how our head stockman Apurra said ‘how are you?’ in his texts from Pokot country, where I had sent him on a mission to search for thin tribal steers for us to buy. Now that we have plenty of pasture, we are looking for large-framed beasts that we can fatten and sell to the butchers.

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