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William “Gatz” Hjortsberg – great friend, writer and mentor R.I.P. Why no donkey monument? Planting mangrove seedlings Northern Rangeland Trust Dubai LONDON
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Year: 2018
Kenya’s Worst Rhino Massacre Was the Work of People Trying to Save the Species – my latest in The Daily Beast
THE MOST DANGEROUS GAMES https://www.thedailybeast.com/author/margot-kiser 10.08.18 5:22 AM ET Kenya’s Worst Rhino Massacre Was the Work of People Trying to Save the Species
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Waiting for Godot — in Nairobi
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The mysterious deaths of eleven black rhino in Kenya
This 2012 translocation of 23 rhino from a private ranch in Laikipia to a national park out west went without a hitch. [Footage of KWS sharpshooter darting a rhino with a tranquilizer] Translocations are fairly routine these days, though not without risks. So how did 11 highly endangered black rhino basically starve to death at […]
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Been a while….
PARIS, France—Unfamiliar with Paris Nord railway station I approached a group of men for directions. Gauging from their clothing the men didn’t look either like passengers or police, but they did look like authorities of some kind, who’d likely know where to direct me. One man, a hulking brute, stepped forward to reply: Do I […]
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Update: Murder of Conservationist Esmond Bradley Martin
Update to my The Daily Beast story Who Killed This Man Who Saved So Many Rhinos and Elephants? On February 4th, 76 year-old wildlife conservationist Esmond Bradley Martin was found slaughtered in his mansion in Langata, a posh residential enclave in Nairobi. The “knife” that police and media had described as the murder weapon was […]
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Who Killed This Man Who Saved So Many Rhinos and Elephants?
A land grab may have been behind the murder in Kenya of American conservationist Esmond Bradley Martin.
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Unintended Consequences: A Fitness App Reveals a Secret US Military Base in Kenya
Fitness tracking Strava App reveals outlines of secret US bases (because people jog around the perimeter) around the world and as well as potentially sensitive information about military personnel on active duty. Here’s what US Forward Operating Base Camp Simba in Lamu County, Kenya looks like. The long vertical line in red is Camp Simba’s […]
