Kenyans grapple with elephants destroying crops

Kenyans grapple with elephants destroying crops - The Pulse of NH

ABC News(NAIROBI, Kenya) -- As cute and confident as Pardamat now seems, the little elephant had a difficult start to life."Pardamat was found next to the dead body of his mother," Edwin Lusichi, head keeper at the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust's nursery in...

Kenyans grapple with elephants destroying crops

ABC News (NAIROBI, Kenya) — As cute and confident as Pardamat now seems, the little elephant had a difficult start to life. “Pardamat was found next to the dead body of his mother,” Edwin Lusichi, head keeper at the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust’s nursery in Nairobi, Kenya, where Pardamat is being cared for, told ABC News. “His mother had a big wound that had been caused by human beings.” The story is similar for many elephants across the country — …

Kenyans grapple with elephants destroying crops | TALK! 100.7 FM

ABC News (NAIROBI, Kenya) — As cute and confident as Pardamat now seems, the little elephant had a difficult start to life. “Pardamat was found next to the dead body of his mother,” Edwin Lusichi, head keeper at the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust’s nursery in Nairobi, Kenya, where Pardamat is being cared for, told ABC News. “His mother had a big wound that had been caused by human beings.” The story is similar for many elephants across the country — v…

Searching for peace, finding hope: A new film explores rural conflict in Kenya - EnviroLink Network

A moving coming-of-age story of two Kenyan teenagers brought together in friendship by a murder, the documentary film Searching for Amani opens a window into complex tensions between conservationists, crop-growing farmers and pastoralists in Kenya as extreme drought throws them into conflict over dwindling resources. “When there is peace, people are not being killed,” says 18-year-old Simon Ali, whose father, a safari guide, was murdered on the …