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Drought forces Kenya's Maasai and other cattle herders to consider fish and camels
The Maasai share their love for cattle with the Samburu, an ethnic group that lives in arid and semi-arid areas of northern Kenya and speaks a dialect of the Maa language that the Maasai speak ...
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Meet Kenya's ‘biological assets’ millionaires
You must have seen Maasai herders turning the city into shamba la wanyama with hundreds of their cattle. Abba Mburu, a business analyst, says cows are biological assets with their value being ...
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Why Poison Is a Growing Threat to Africa’s Wildlife
This story appears in the August 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. A young male lion was one of three members of Kenya’s famous Marsh Pride to die in 2015 after eating a cow carcass ...
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‘Zero-cabbaging’ Maasai cattle to beat drought
Members of the Hindu Council of Kenya have resorted to a unique relief supply effort to alleviate suffering for Maasai herders, who have migrated with their cattle to areas near Nairobi and other ...