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Wild life

The man-eating leopard of Laikipia

24 September 2022

9:00 AM

24 September 2022

9:00 AM

Laikipia Plateau, Kenya

Until only a few years ago, the constellations blazed across the sky above the farm at night and there was not a single electric light on any horizon. On many evenings I found myself with my rangers sleeping on the tracks of cattle rustlers heading into Kenya’s wild north with no fences between us and the Ethiopian frontier.

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