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#thebigwhitelie: NO NO NO to "consumptive wildlife"

16/8/2018

OPEN LETTER TO DR BEN OKITA
Chairperson, Consumptive Wildlife Taskforce

I write to you as a citizen of the world domiciled in the African Motherland, and particularly in a territory that the imperial British forces carved out and called "Kenya."

I would like to voice my loudest opposition to the proposal to introduce "wildlife consumption in Kenya.

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#TheBigConservationLie: Wildlife are more valuable than money

1/8/2018

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"Wild Rainbow" Painting by Anthony Mwangi

By now, many Kenyans have been made privy to the heated debates surrounding the death of 11 rhinos in a botched translocation exercise by KWS, funded by WWF and overseen by the embattled Tourism minister Najib Balala. Now that Balala lost his cool and told unnamed people to go to hell, Kenyans are spoiling for him to be fired.

It appears that Balala is way out of his depth in handling this issue. But focus on his sacking still misses the crux of the debate.

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#thebigwhitelie: NO NO NO to "consumptive wildlife"

#TheBigConservationLie: Wildlife are more valuable than money

Wandia Njoya

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