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Wild life

My battle with the dreaded ‘black cotton’

11 May 2024

9:00 AM

11 May 2024

9:00 AM

Laikipia, Kenya

By the time I set off from the farm before dawn we’d had 22in of rain in the past month. At the bottom of the valley I saw in the headlights that our lugga, or seasonal watercourse, had become a roaring torrent of brown water after yet another downpour overnight.

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