- Three aspects of controversy …
1) Kenya: the curse of the wildlife conservation industry to the Samburu Community.
2) Governments of Kenya sized their Land and now their Animals, and destroy their homes to give room for creation of Monster called Laikipia National Park.
3) Samburu Evicted for “Conservation” in Kenya
The present situation in Kenya and especially the area around Samburu, has threatened the life of Samburu people in general. Unprecedented draught, civil strife, and a regime of police abuse against indigenous Samburu have sabotaged and greatly challenged the efforts to survive. With scarce resources and incited by the local authorities, the tribes around Samburu are fighting each other for cattle and livelihood. Cattle, which die from draught or are stolen, are the main source of income. Members of the Samburu people in Kenya have been abused, beaten and raped by police after the land they lived on for two decades was sold to two US-based wildlife charities, a rights group and community leader have alleged.
With nowhere to go, around 2,000 Samburu families stayed on the edge of the disputed territory, living in makeshift squats, while 1,000 others were forced to relocate… The displaced community has nothing but their livestock, thousands of which were impounded – with no reason given – on 25 November 2011. This is an urgent and serious violation of the rights of this community, which has been left squatting beside its land with no amenities.
Source:Survival
BESIDES THE INIQUITY
What about TOURISM?
The German travel industry has warned that destroying Samburu could destroy tourism.
Here you will find the letter to Kibake with their opinion
The evictions follow the purchase of the land by two conservation charities – The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF).
If German tourism can approach Kenya and state that the eviction of Samburu and indigenous tribes in the name of conservation cannot be tolerated, surely, others can partake in the same sentiment?
Whilst the Focus is made on the morale of such decisions within Kenya, it could be looked at that even just what the tourist media portrays of Kenya – the Masai, tribalism, culture, AUTHENTIC Kenya – is slowly dying along with people, the traditions and it’s nomadic appeal – in the name of commercial profits and lack of empathy or respect for Masai democracy.
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