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Kenya: Endangered pangolins on the rebound as conservationists work with farmers to protect them

Writer's picture: Dave Harmon, PW editorDave Harmon, PW editor

When Fred Telekwa settled on his farm inside Nyakweri forest, in western Kenya, four years ago, his main worry was how to prevent elephants and buffaloes from destroying his crops. The nearby Maasai Mara game reserve housed a huge amount of roaming wildlife.


“Two or three elephants can clear an acre of cabbages in one night. I had no choice but to put up an electric fence to ward off the animals,” he says.


https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/05/once-thought-extinct-giant-ground-pangolins-helped-back-from-brink-kenya-aoe

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