Just after dawn, Tolstoy lumbers into view. A turf war has erupted over a 180-acre avocado farm near Amboseli, one of Kenya’s premier national parks, where elephants and other wildlife graze against the striking backdrop of Africa’s highest peak. Jeremiah Shuaka Saalash, a KiliAvo shareholder and farm manager, said the farm had “rescued” many tourist workers left jobless when nearby …
Demand for the fruit and a proposed new farm threaten to cut animals off from their habitat in Kenya’s Amboseli National Park. “The Kimana wildlife corridor where this development is taking place has always been and still is one of the key wildlife corridors,” said Richard Bonham of the conservation group Big Life Foundation. “The UK is urging world leaders …
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