Kenya: Eating Wild Meat Carries Serious Health Risks - Why It Still Happens Along the Kenya-Tanzania Border

Kenya: Eating Wild Meat Carries Serious Health Risks - Why It Still Happens Along the Kenya-Tanzania Border

Analysis - Pastoralist communities, their livestock and diverse wildlife species coexist within a biodiversity-rich landscape stretching along the Kenya-Tanzania border.

Eating wild meat carries serious health risks – why it still happens along the Kenya-Tanzania border

Pastoralist communities, their livestock and diverse wildlife species coexist within a biodiversity-rich landscape stretching along the Kenya–Tanzania border. However, at this wildlife-livestock interface, local communities face mounting challenges. Shifts in land use, prolonged droughts, erratic rainfall patterns and increasing land degradation are placing growing pressure on the landscape. In addition, conflict between people and wildlife is o…