2023-06-16 15:27:44
In this East African country, two pillars of the economy hardly coexist: agriculture and the protection of wildlife, which attracts a little more tourists each year. The cohabitation is delicate, sometimes bloody.
It was not a trophy hunter’s rifle, but a Maasai herder’s spear that killed one of Kenya’s oldest lions last May. Is that why the death of Loonkiito has caused less ink to flow than that of the lion Cecil? In total, in several weeks, nearly a dozen felines have yet been executed by angry breeders after the death of some of their livestock. These acts are in direct violation of the laws in force in this East African country renowned for its national parks and reserves, popular with tourist safari operators.
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