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21st August 2010 THE LAIKIPIA HIGHLAND GAMESIt's that time of year again! CLICK HERE FOR ALL THE INFORMATION21st August 2010 The Poacher Who Learnt to Cartwheel... and the Ones who Play Foot ballHallo, my friends,I know you have been waiting for this update...and I wanted to make sure that what was only the glimmer of a general plan, became and ongoing reality... the story of Kopus, the poacher who learnt.. acrobatics and leadership... and self respect. The snap shots you see here below tell their own story: released from jail, Kopus did not disappear; he went daily to sign at the KWS, where the Sergeant Longwanani -very cooperative- took it upon himself to check on him and 'build him up. Step by step. The second time I met him I gave him a Tshirt with our Logo; the second a bag of maize, he would learn to sell - and he brought some of the elders, as witnesses; for the 3rd meeting, I told him to bring some of his friends, at least ten young men like him, at risk of becoming poachers and petty criminals. He would be their leader. That time I gave him a solar mobile phone so I can get hold of him and he of me. Between the 3rd and 4th meeting Sveva (Makena) came with her creative input, introducing drama and peace building, and we identified other similar youngsters from the East Pokot to join the team-and engaged their group leader, Chaon. We found a secluded area for the training and marked it with purple flags. We got tents from our store and food and utensils. They now had their camp. In the end we had twentyfive youngsters and by the 5th time we had bought two very large breeding male goats-imported breed-that we donated for them to share and to loan out to improve their native small goats breed -something they readily and enthusiastically understood-, and black t-sirts with a blue logo for all. A sense of identity. 
2nd time 
3rd time 
4th From Nairobi came two great young acrobatic and yoga teachers, Walter and Victor. And from a roll of black cloth, on the old pedal Singer machine at Kuti, our taylor Kariuki Githau churned out 25 identical trousers . Exercises began.. and Kopus excelled. With the team he learnt punctuality, discipline and self respect. Story telling and sharing. The way in which this group of youth at risk responded to rigorous training left us breathless. 
The new Kopus 
The old Kopus ...and next, for the ones who were not built for acrobatics.. a new football team-shoes donated by Shoes for Africa- and volley ball team and runners..and sculptor Kioko MUitiki drove up to train them in twisting old fencing wire in animal shapes... the adventure goes on. ....and the ones of you who will join us for The Laikipia Highlands Games (Sport for Peace, September 18th)...will watch, in awe as we will, the varied performances of The Pokot Youth Peace Team, led by young Kopus, super acrobat, the Poacher who Was Given a chance. 
None of this could have been achieved without your support and encouragement. Thank you and blessings from the Heart Kuki, Sveva and the team From Laikipia Nature Conservancy August 18th 2010 15th July 2010 ... And the Women Who DancedDear Friends,-part 2- ....In the meantime the Pokot and Samburu women had finished their Lorora(Samburu) and their huts(Pokot). I took with me the boy Lotou...the one "Who sat Under a Tree...: and who can count now and proudly write basic words- Peter Kanyakera is visiting his family for a few days-and went to find the Samburu and Pokot women and went to officially inspect the finished peace huts in our central area of the Conservancy. They repaired the old and built several new wonderful dwelling, lit a fire in each of them to bless them, and we shall be able to host them in style, and the tribal athletes at the Laikipia Highlands Games .... and so, to thank them, I asked them for tea.The Pokot girls came too on their way home, and they all joined in a spontaneous song and dance! They revealed that they had planned to subtly talk their men into stopping fights and raids...hope it works..it begins with the women, at home... great power... ... and work has began also at " Land of Hope" the place just on our boundary that our supporter Dick Tarlow, Sveva and myself purchased a few years ago to create a model eco- school and Women Vocational Centre : we needed the water there before we began, and with generous support from Coca Cola East Africa , this is now possible! Surveyors came, and aquifer was magically immediately found- it was meant to happen- and soon a bore hole that will help the construction and provide water for the entire Mutaro community will begin: our work never ends... Watch next update...! and lots of love and thank you to you all. Kuki and the Team Laikipia Nature Conservancy, 15ty July 2010  Peace Village: Finished Samburu Peace Lororas  Finished Pokot Peace Huts  Gilrls come to tea  ....and we all end up in a dance in my garden, with dogs watching(photo by Ali)   
and everything is green.. 15th July 2010 The Poacher Who Was Given a Choice ...Dear Friends,(lots of reading- two updates in one-, sorry) a few years ago, at the height of the pre-election tribal clashes between the Samburu and Pokot people, Sveva and I invited two groups of women from each tribe to come up here together and build-together and on the same spot, facing a sacred olive tree- some traditional dwellings in their respective traditional style. After some initial stiffness, the women learnt to work together, cook eat and pray together, and it was great. The huts so constructed served to host them and the tribal athletes and artists for our many yearly gathering in congenial surroundings. Wear and tear , drought and rain, termites and a couple of elephants really "sitting" on them... much work needed to be done. So the Pokot women came and then the Samburu. I was given a necklace and greeted with songs. They started work with alacrity and humour, GREAT spirit!..... 
The Pokot 
The Samburu ..and in the middle of all this gun shots at dusk and screaming elephants... blood tracks followed by our team and the KWS... yours truly hit her head on a tree branch while dashing to give the alarm and was knocked off cold for a few moments- coming to with puzzled dogs licking her face and blood streaming from a scalp cut (well, may be I should stop playing Indiana Jones?), next day flown Nairobi, hospital scan & clean bill, but no long distance flying allowed for a while in case a blood cloth forms...bother) . ...in the meantime , more importantly, poachers tracks brought to a certain boma in the vicinity...ambush was set up early next morning and one young man was captured, while two escaped carrying their AK 47s.... success....or? ...a long frustrating sad history of court incompetence when trying wildlife offences, absurdly lenient sentences that represent more an incentive than a deterrent; obsolete legislation from a time when trophy hunting was allowed, regard for wildlife differed, price of elephants tusks was minimal, market too, and animals abundant.. ;poachers caught red handed released and the knowledge that one man caught will not deter unscrupoulous dealers from sending their pick of an endless reservoir of thousands of idle tribal young men with no education, nor jobs, desperate to capture any rare opportunity to make a few shillings- into a killing mission and risk of arrest and death if caught armed. Such was the arrested youth. Possibly -definitely? guilty- but not enough evidence on him, and Nyahururu court sure to acquit him.So big were his chances of an early release, and of rejoining the ranks of wild bushmen poachers... Try something different?Everything has failed so far. Take a risk. ...So after long pondering and discussion with police and KWS, we resolved to make an example of him. We agreed the police and Kws would bring the boy to the conservancy for me to meet him...we found some elders of his family ... and here, you too, meet Kopus Letoi, the first recruit of the acrobatic/artists Pokot warriors peace team- 
One of TWENTYTRHEE BROTHERS and sisters ( father in picture, was drunk with changaa, has just ten goats). Never been to school, never seen an European, never spoken to one, let alone a Musungu mama, aloof, remote, - impossible to reach..he spoke no Swahili but he could understand some-never been anywhere, his horizon Ratia, his dream in life?to have some goats and cattle and look after them. Almost carbon copy physically of the hundred wild silent shadows following elephants tracks in the nights of moon. (by the way, this is what Peter Kanyakera, below on day one- would have looked like at 18-Kopus alleged age, but no one knows his age) Warning him of the dire consequences and horrors of a police remand prison, I told him I wanted to give him a chance. I told him he had a choice, with much figurative language-and the supportive hilarity of the KWS -who, tired to see their suspects released- were very supportive of the scheme-);he admitted buyers lured them with little money, but little is ok, they have nothing at all, nothing else to do, and nothing to lose. I told him he and his friends had been cheated, the crooks buyers were fat and safe, with new expensive clothes, driving big cars, richer than last year since so many elephants lay dead-and soon there will be none left and so then what would he do? kill butterflies? ants?-, while he was as poor, had no car, no money no prospects,no hope, nothing, and on top of all he had ben caught, and if he had been caught with his weapon he may have been shot...the buyers would not care, there were so many there like him. I explained that every life and his life was like a path in the bush with many side tracks to take and many diversions, and he was only using one- the bad one of the illegal killings that brought him nowhere. I explained that he did not know it yet, it but he had a real choice because we had agreed to release him, on certain conditions, to give him that chance to improve his lot, leave the wild animals alone, and it was up to him to make it work...make something of his life, ...the plot was explained - I detected a glimmer...was there a glimmer, did I manage to come across?- and I gave him a symbolic T-shirt to wear-the very first NEW garment he ever had- told him to do certain things, come back on a certain day... and more to come...suspense... This story continues in next update after the 25th when much will be revealed.. 
Peter Kanyakera rescue 14th May 2009,femur broken by buffalo while illegally grazing his father cattle at night 
I recognised Lotou amongst hundreds boys,Christmas feeding, Dec 25th 2009 
Peter Kanyakera and Lotou now Lotou-avid to learn- has a computer (well, a talking toy computer!), and Mussa, the Samburu volunteer, will teach him how to use it. 
When I gave it to him he almost burst into tears (a month ago he was desperate, covered in rugs, wounded and filthy, now confident, secure, he never stops smiling..they have both learnt to smile!! ) and so we move on, - life is full of challenges- and send you love and blessings Kuki and the team from Laikipia Nature Conservancy, Northern Kenya on 10th July 2010 3rd July 2010 SAVE THE DATE!
16th June 2010 THE BOY WHO SAT UNDER THE TREEDear Friends,For my birthday, and with your help, on June 1st, we went to feed uji and biscuits to the East Pokot kids. My friend Lisa brought lots of bread and special treats of coloured sugar and butter, and Jonathan Howard and his family brought biscuits, too. 
On the way back in the evening, lots of elephants, families of breeding Guinea fowls, a lion..and below a tree, just on the track, the small figure of a boy sat waiting. His stained clothes were in tatters; his face streaked with mucus and tears. He may be 8, 9, or 10?- he does not know. He spoke no Swahili and when I stopped, between sobs, he managed to only say "Kuki. Schule (school)". I recognised him as one of the many ragged kids who had come to all the feedings queuing patiently for their mug to be filled-and re-fillled. We found Peter Kanyakera-'The First Pokot Boy, now being tutored before he joins a new school in September, and learnt the boy's name is Lotou, his father died when he was only a couple of months old, his mother-now pregnant with the seventh child- remarried a drunken man who resents him, and beats him up with a whip made of hide, (a "kiboko"). Long scars on his arm and head told the harrowing tale. His mother also drinks and beats him up. After a severe beating he had ran away and slept two nights in the bush before coming to the feeding.. and there hatched the idea of waiting for my car and begging for shelter. His trust, his innocence and his initiative brought a knot to my throat. Well: long story. Having fished out a new shirt for him (he went behind a bush to change) I left him for the night with a ranger, and sent for his mother. Next day she came, unemotionally she declared she had beaten him severely, she could not cope, nor send him to school, could I look after him... could I keep him, teach him. In presence of the elders an agreement was made, Peter is delighted to have a friend. We equipped him with new blanket, a few clothes, soap, a bowl, a mug, few basic items, treasures. At this time they are both taught together, sleep and eat together, he has learnt to smile (never seem to stop smiling now), and every day is new. Another Pokot boy...and Peter has a friend! And so we go on. 
Then, it rained (see from my office!), and on WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY on June 5th and in the preceding and following days we planted over 5000 trees!!!-for our reforestation project next to the forest at Enghelesha. We gave eco friendly awards for poems, for songs for wildlife clubs..(winner: Njorua Primary school, Best environment record); 
....and in the evening on my way back, two rhinos in the distance on the open plain- as a gift; a large herd of buffalo. A tortoise; three Cheetah. 
Another lion at dusk, before turning into my house at Kuti. The mother hadada bird has had two new ones, above our breakfast table. And so our lives go on. We send you love and blessings, Kuki and the team in Laikipia Nature Conservancy, Northern Kenya On 9th June 2010 17th May 2010 FEEDING, AND TREES, FLOODS, BIRDS AND BUTTERFLIESDear Friends,So this was last week... a sunny Sunday after the rains and I drove to our Mutamayo gate with East Pokot, for the weekly children feeding (rains may have come by hunger still there).. with special biscuits as well as Uji, and sweets treats, and was mobbed...(as expected). 
I gave Chief Amasile of the Kapuya Pokot a donation of fourty two BLACK shuka (the traditional Pokot colour for their attire) since the student group who had danced at our Prayers for the Earth event were wearing multicoloured, ingenious bed linen for shukas...and asked us to provide the correct stuff.. 
A few days ago I went to check the new tree nursery, with Ignitious the ecologist and Elizabeth, where thousands of new indigenous tree seedlings are growing to be planted in our reforestation plan and on World Environment day (See our head of Nursery, Thomas Ole Kaichu, proud of his work...) and then the sky opened... and it poured and poured....and poured.. car got miserably stuck in a new river... rain kept coming... 
no comments on these photo, were rescued at night... and next morning, sunshine and happy birds foraging in my garden..and this extraordinary photo by Mike Roberts of 4 different types of butterflies sharing a meal..! The symbol of Biodiversity in a biodiversity year! 
Thank you for your support, without which none of what we do would be possible, With love and blessings Kuki and the team Laikipia Nature Conservancy on 15th May 2010 20th APRIL 2010 Of Feeding , of Birds, and of Yoga for the PokotMy Dear Friends,The grass may be greener, and Planet Earth-Gaia-, despite clouds of volcanic ashes paralising other parts of the world, in this part of Kenya may have managed with extraordinary resilience to make use of any drop of rain and to restore herself with amazing speed- and in my garden for the first time ever a mother Adada bird sits on her nest just above the breakfast table... - but hunger is still there, and our feeding relief programme- that we began in January 2009, proceeds twice a week, with your help, for the poorest children of our neighbours.  
 
In Doha we may have narrowly won for the elephants, but the young Pokot have not heard of this yet... and the criminal traders are still very much active in the black market, and still offer a price for the elephant teeth that provide an incentive to the thousand youth without a job just at our doorstep...our infrared camera are set up and doing a great job monitoring elephants and rhino-Thank you again, Roger! - but gunshots are still heard in the full moon if not as often as in 2009, and today the KWS has arrested a poacher, red handed!  
 
Still..undeterred, in the attempt to harness the stamina of the young idle Pokot-potential future poachers! - showing them another way to be fit and brave... and based on our belief in imagination and creativity as the best medicine, we have brought in a yoga master from the Nairobi slums to teach cartwheels and acrobatics.... also to the nursery kids.. it seems to work, the youth are secretly practicing, we are told, and they beg for the teacher to come back which we hope we can manage to do! 
 
Yoga for the Pokot, what about this..? We pray for sanity, we send you blessings, and gratitude Kuki and Team In Laikipia Nature Conservancy Norther Kenya on 23rd April 2010 WORLD EARTH DAY 8th APRIL 2010 EASTER EGGS AND THE GARDEN OF EDENHallo my friends!On good Friday we painted the eggs and the cooks fried the mandazi and cooked the Uji: on Saturday and on Easter Sunday we distributed them at our East Pokot and Ol Moran gates and over 500 children-plus mothers and elders- were fed and sweets were given to all as a treat. 
 
 
 
 
With the rains all has taken a healthy sheen, dams are full and animals fat and not a night goes without lions roaring just out of my window, as they stalk buffalo at Kuti... but hunger still remains. We discovered that most children had never eaten an egg before! Our protege' Peter Kanyakera, the Pokot Boy on his first school break, went home to see his family. 
On the way back from Friday feeding I was amazed to see THREE Cheetah, stalking impala at Kuti airstrip, and only sorry I did not have a better camera to capture this, but here they are. 
And at night one of the donated infrared cameras (Thank you, Roger!) captured this rhino at the Nest salt, identified as Prince Bernhard, who was born in 1996 during a visit of our late Patron. 
 
 
 
The dams are full - a dramatic difference since the shot I took just a couple of months ago! - and Henry the hippo is spoiled for choice... the elephant- the great plants propagators- seem to know they have managed to escape the harrowing pressures at CITES... and the frogs and the bees are back in The Garden of Eden, from where I send you love and hope and blessings. Kuki and the team in Laikipia Nature Conservancy Easter Monday 2010 23rd March 2010 ELEPHANTS MUST LIVEFrom:Doha, Qatar CITES, COP15 CITES,Elephants, Ivory Trade, Ivory Trade Ban, Date: March 22nd 2010 Dear Friends, After a freezing and short visit to New York where I received the Africa Foundation Award for my work with communities, I returned to a green Ol ari Nyiro, and our projects there. We hosted various schools and the Caine Prize for african writers I am delighted to announce that after a tense series of meetings, characterised by harrowing discussions and blatant favoritism, where despair and impotence set alternated with glimmers of hope, sanity prevailed in Doha today, when Tanzania and Zambia's request to sell their ivory and to downgrade the elephant to Appendix 2-which would have opened the door to future sales- has been rejected by the delegates. I travelled to Doha to be of service to a cause in which I believe- and to support Kenya's stand- that led the way against the proposal. After a few tragic years-following the ivory sales by four southern African States-, in which Kenya lost hundreds -may be thousands-of elephants to poaching in anticipation of the lifting of the ban, I felt it was important to leave no stone unturned to ensure a positive out come of the quest-which looked very uncertain up to the last minute. The strict relation between allowing the trade in some countries, and the illegal slaughtering of elephant around the continent, is the point that I stressed with delegates who had not quite made up their mind. If uncertain, one should always vote for life. Allowing trade in some African states, means stimulating poachers, dealers and brokers in others to accumulate tusks for the black market, and to keep alive a shameful market that simply should not exist. Not in 2010, the "Year of Biodiversity." We should know better. Remember my friends:"Ivory" is only a glamorous, glossy name for a tooth, a body part of wild animals whose habitat has already been restricted, whose corridors and ancient migratory routes have been interrupted, and who valiantly keep going despite everything with their silent grace, intelligence and compassion, all qualities that sometimes seem lost to the human beings who are appointed to play God and are entitled to decide- with a stroke of a pen- to end lives in places far away-where most of them have not been and about which most of them do not really care. The nurturing and respect for the web of life of which we are all part seem remote and alien to most, who see every living thing in a marketable way. For as long as this is the case something is seriously wrong in our system. Here the survival of lizards, iguanas, coral reefs, birds, sharks, polar bears and bleu fin tuna has been discussed, with certain species such as polar bears and blue fin tuna losing the battle!! Japan and China are leading in opposing practically every single motion to protect dwindling species. I return to Kenya tomorrow bringing hope to our elephants herds and in trust that the CITES plenary session will reconsider short sighted decisions, and confirm strict protection of all the species that have been discussed here. It was extremely difficult, and I was glad to be part of this. Images like the ones I enclose here below, in Laikipia Nature Conservancy in 2009, should belong to a shameful past. Our commitment to biodiversity and habitat preservation, wildlife monitoring and protection, reforestation and community projects, education, culture, relief, public health, conflict resolution through sport and art, and the pursuits of the endeavour of the human spirit continues unabated, with joy, optimism and enthusiasm. I thank you for your support and encouragement and send blessings to you all. Kuki               Laikipia Nature Conservancy From Doha Qatar on 22 march 2010 21st February 2010 PRAYERS FOR THE EARTH PRESS RELEASEThousand of people from across 9 tribes, community members from West and East Laikipia,Baringo East, East Pokot, Samburu, Tugen, and envoys and dignitaries from various parts of the world, attended the Ceremony PRAYERS FOR THE EARTH at Ol ARI NYIRO/ Laikipia Nature Conservancy on Saturday 20/2/2010. After a year of unprecedented unrest, tribal clashes, famine and insecurity exacerbated by environmental degradation, climate change and one of the worst droughts in living memory, 2010 has begun with rains, green grass, promise of crops and hope of peace and reconciliation. 2010 is dedicated to biodiversity: There was a time elders prayed in forests and mountains, and respected nature on which they relied for their survival. This has changed in recent times, with environment bearing the brunt of human greed, through pollution, deforestation, poaching, and unsustainable use of water and natural resources.  All guests were asked to carry water and a stone from their location. On arrival, they watered a symbolic young Olive tree (Mutamayo) and put their stone on a memorial mound of stones to remind of the committement to peace and environmental respect of today. Prayers that emphasised the link between spirituality, peace and respect for the environment, offered by representatives of the major monoteistic religions opened and closed the event. Traditional prayers by hundreds of elders from across the region and the tribes of Pokot, Samburu, Jemps, Turkana, Kikuyu, Nandi, Tugen and Borana followed. The Islam faith was represented by Sheikh Shilal Muhammed Huka, Muslim Prayer The Cristian by Father Giacomo Basso, Ol Moran Catholic Mission, ( Prayer of St Francis of Assisi) Rev. Francis Omondi Anglican Church of Kenya, and Art Davis of the African Inland Church. The Israeli Ambassador to Kenya HE Jacob Keidar, offered Jewish Prayer  During the closing prayer, by Art Davis of the African Inland Church, -who lived for a generation amongst the Amaya Pokot-, a flock of many hundreds European storks - a large species of migratory birds- converged on the prayer's site to the marvel of the thousands guests who saw this as a sign that God had heard their prayers. The Prayers were organised and sponsored by The Gallmann Memorial Foundation, facilitated by Sveva Gallmann (Makena), and hosted by Kuki Gallmann, the Kenyan environmental activist and author, who have for many years been involved in promoting peace and reconciliation by putting people at conflict together through various unusual events such as The Laikipia Highlands Games (Sports for Peace), which won the 2009 Peace and Sport event of the Year in Monaco, France, and the Great Rift valley Earth Festival that brings attention to Environmental concerns and promotes reconciliation through the medium of the Arts, by putting world artist together with African artists across the tribal divide. The conservancy has hosted such meetings since 2005, when serious clashes began in the region, and was the venue of reconciliation gatherings and seminars also from youth from the Sudan and Nairobi slums after the post election violence. PRAYERS FOR THE EARTH was greeted by all as an extraordinary success. The next edition of The Laikipia Highlands Games (Sports for Peace) will occur on 18th September 2010. 13th February 2010 PRAYERS FOR THE EARTHDear Friends,A different spirit, intangible but very much present, seems to pervade this new year 2010 here in Western Laikipia, a spirit of change and of good new things. While there is no doubt that climate change and weather unpredictability are here to stay - and that we have not seen the end of the poaching- until the Far East demand is high and increasing-there is a will from the people to take the matters that can be changed by people in hand, and make changes in the way things are done. The message came to me two weeks ago that the Samburu were returning to Ol Moran- after several years. They had been chased by Pokot at gun point a few years ago before the elections, in tribal clashes whose repercussion had left hundreds dead-from both tribes. I could not believe this was really happening. I made a few calls and was told its was true, so I went to see this with my own eyes. I decided to go on my own, no guards, and only took with me -symbolically- young Peter Kanyakera, -the Pokot boy we have rescued, and taken on -and are educating - after he was hurt by a buffalo- and Richard Lekalja- a Samburu youth we have educated and now has joined our team- and drove there. On market day in Ol Moran the cloud of looming danger, abandon and unease that had settled since 2006 seemed to have lifted. Elders had come to meet elders, they were eating and drinking together, and I was greeted by all like an old friend (see pics below!) Several reconciliation meetings ensued which we attended. To one at dam Nyukundu, in our area, we were asked to contribute a bull!  Our women adult class is going from strenght to strenght with a new bright teacher, Judy...and last week the local Pokot men-shyly at first, have approached me, asking also for an adult class...- what to say, unprecedented!!... so today I interviewed a teacher,young Frederick, and they will build a small structure in the open just outside our western gate... and we shall make them a black board, a few tables.... a new venture.  Oh.. Saturday last week in teh traditionally hottest and driest month of the year-totally out of season-rumbles of thunder shook the night sky and rain fell heavily until dawn.A thousands birds woke me up in the morning and as I went to greet my dogs, I knew something had changed. THE FROGS WERE BACK! ...So in the spirit of the moment, on the 20th of February-the day of our cultural events- we shall be hosting PRAYERS FOR THE EARTH. Elders and women- community and youth of the Samburu, Pokot, Njemps, Turkana, Kikuyu, Nandi, Turkana will converge on Laikipia Nature Conservancy to give thanks in their different languages, following their different traditions and beliefs, to Mother Earth for her gifts and to pray for and commit to peace. At a time when climate change affects the livelihood of the rural Africa and poaching has devastated the great herds, this will be a message of individual and tribal committment to look after the environment on which our survival here depends. Representatives of the main world religions practiced here and village choirs will join us all... and I will be thinking of you on the day-and report! Think of us and join us, if you can, and, if you do, bring from your place a small stone to build a commemorative mound-a thousand stones!-an a small jar of water from your land to water a symbolic olive tree! With gratitude and with hope Kuki and the Team From Laikipia Nature Conservancy on 9th February 2010 13th February 2010 PRAYERS FOR THE EARTHDear Friends,
PRAYERS FOR THE EARTH
A day event (NOT a show and NOT a political meeting) during which local tribal elders/women/and warriors from nine different tribes, some who have been involved in conflict for years now, and in poaching, will gather in Laikipia Nature Conservancy to give thanks and pray - after a difficult year of drought, insecurity, famine and poaching - following their different traditions and beliefs - and commit to peace and respect for the environment.
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