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7/5/1957 - No Room for Animals by Smith Hempstone Jr.

NOT FOR PUBLICATION INSTITUTE OF CURRENT WORLD AFFAIRS SH July No Room Animals P O Box Nairobi Kenya Walter S Rogers Institute Current World Affairs Fifth Avenue New York N Y Dear Rogers When I first dentist prodding cavity country literally crawling It looks pretty finished Dr elhuish Kenya years plenty people agree without exception everyone professional hunters governor believes Africa numbered Unless trend reversed According N I Simon chairman Kenya Wild Life Society greatest single factor constant eradication animals species poaching natives Heaviest according Mr Simon giraffes sinews strings tails fletching arrows wildebeestes tails whisps rhinos horns aphrodisiacs elephants tusks ivory other animals slaughtered large either local consumption Sale wealthier tribes Wakamba Chagga The poachers number methods Fore among these snares poisoned arrows And poaching borders national parks reserves where animals plentiful jumpy An animal falls poacher death In cases where poisoned arrows death lingering unless fresh poison cents enough arrow In traps snares animals according rangers either thirst starvation hyenas before poacher scene When poacher manages snare large number animals customary string means keeping fresh while ensuring escape Not pretty picture In areas poachers gangs numbering They attack whole herds animals following SH those seriously wounded Convictions difficult obtain If poacher kills giraffe pulls sinews theimeat cents length sells Vultures hyenas destroy evidence within matter minutes after finding carcass According Robert Lindsay Government Press Of fleer illicit ivory taken poachers collected agents caches Nairobi lombasa carried dlemen ombasa where black market Ultimately finds Far Eastern markets Europe Somalia Poached ivory conservative estimate meant annual Goverrnent revenue about As cases organized middleman makes profit The African shoots elephant cents pound ivory Poaching course traditional Kenya hunting tribes The Waliangulu small Coast Province tribe classicists There about first class trackers Kenya today Harold Prowse professional hunter Waliangulus For reason Waliangulu country which south Tsavo Park burnt waterless wasteland It either tribe Other hunting tribes Wakamba north Tsavo Galla along Tana River mainly commercial affair although course poach The point being poaching stopped alternative means livelihood offered hunting tribes Simon believes widespread commercial poaching crack rings receivers usually Indians operating coast little reasons catch native poacher convict convict another African poaching activities there market products The Governor Sir Evelyn aring concerned waste Kenya natural wealth official notice situation earlier aring disturbed growth poaching warned poaching presents serious danger preservation population ordered depar uents government poaching measures In recent weeks aircraft patrols initiated widesvread gangs poachers ordinance passed The doubles fines poaching increases prison sentences months years tightens dealers trophies makes possession poison offence uires cutting polishing ivory export place within Government supervised ivory ombasa SH If poaching wiped least controlled toughest existence But fight The there today Denis Zaphiro Game Warden Kajiado almost exclusively factors tsetse WILDEBEESTE The tsetse Gnu tails grest because cattle under The animals Africa unlike their domestic cousins developed immunity species So great areas country which otherwise would grazed cattle goats pasturage No developing inmunity domestic animals developed It however recently ablished scientists working Tanganyika tself carries blood infection blood nourishes flies So wiped tsetse would probably disappear Africa The scientists still searching drastic means control But solution effect gradual elimination domestic animals fences built civilization moves The range Kenya largest expanses grazing always great friend They hence But things happening country recent years intermarrying With eating tribes SH developing instances taste assist modern veterinary metheds llasai cattle herds creased extent estimated cattle every family their becoming heavily grazed It getting worse ernment official working The lasai start shooting They their cattle competition limited grazing developing decid attitude What about parks I asked IIwon preserve poaching contained The answer And every Kenya small contain migratory urges effect Aside psychological migrations animals cases parks during season Vast though paper parks reserves contain worst country Kenya And lastly parks Amboseli perhaps finest colony parcel native reserve where native interests predominate It seems likely unless drastic steps taken within years East African share American uffalo East Africans nothing might remember colony earned million tourism Without Kenya stands money Sincerely Smith He Received New York Ii