OPINION - Should things continue as they are, the government will be politically forced to order removal of wildlife populations by the Army and possibly even order de-gazetting of some of our larger protected areas to provide land for settlement and farming It is notoriously difficult to get precise numbers on the populations of Kenyas remaining wildlife. We emphasise remaining because, while the numbers may be disputed, the general trend of rapid decline is universally acknowledged. But the rate of that decline is not easy to measure, in part because we are dealing with populations living in wilderness areas, and still in large enough numbers to make it impossible to count each and every one: statistical models for arriving at scientific estimates have to be used
Posted on: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 13:42:29 +0000