ONE MAN IS GRAVELY ILL AFTER BEING MAULED BY THE LIONS – – WILDLIFE / HUMAN CONFLICT INTENSIFIES IN KEAYA’S JUNGLES REGIONS.
Writes Leo Odera Omolo
One man is gravely ill and is being hospitalized following an attack by a group of three lions which had strayed I the Maasai village, killed a cow and killed goats and sheep.
The incident took place on Wednesday night at Loitokitok near the Kenya-Tanzania border. The man from the nomas Maasai tribesmen fought the lions, but one of the as mauled seriously and has since been admitted to the nearby Rombo hospital which is locate in he sloes of Mt Kilimanaro with serious bodily harm.
The incident occured only a week after another incident which took place at Kitengea in the outskirt of the capital, Nairobi, in which he Maasai Morans armed themselves with spea4rs and other crude weapons killed six lions including two cubs. The animals had attacked the villages and killed 20 goats and sheep. The villagers said they had reported the incident to the Kenya Wildlife SERVICES {kws},but the Organisation’s armed ranger took along time before coming to he villagers rescue.
The following day another group lions invaded the same area and killed thee cows, a donkey and ten sheep and goats. Services
{KWS} is the body that is tasked by he government in regulating and policing he wild life sanctuaries and game arks.
N the North Rift parts of the expansive Kenya’s Rift Valley Province a combine force of members of the public and Kenya Wildlife Services rangers {KWS} armed themselves with spears, arrows and boys plus other crude weapons have bee regrouping I groups comprising f 5 men to hunt down a group of leopards but failed to ace the big cats that have killed close to 40 goats and 20 sheep within the last one week.
The swamps area is located in Sigot Location in lelmokwo areas where the cats are believed to have
The leopards suspected to be six ii numbers are believed to be hiding and living in the last ten years.The are suspected to have strayed from the nearby Kapkiptui Hills in Ndalat where they have been spotted dug er last ten years, last week attacked several homes where they killed sheep and goats.
For sometime these cats roamed about the villages an looked harmless, and we had no cause and reason to worry abut,” said one villager.
Further more the residents are cautious not to take unnecessary alarm that could result in killing them.They only attack as from midnight and before dawn they retreat to their hideouts.”
Hundred of residents including he location chief Mr Nicolas Kosgei are now living in fear since the cats could end up attacking them unless the KWS intervenes a d dives them out f the villages.
Leopard and can inflict injuries twenty or or thirty at ago.once provoked. But always shy when it encounters human being. The are extraordinarily clever and intelligent as well as good fighter. It fights it enemy using the knife like laws.
Relatively smaller in size in comparison to the African lion, gown up leopard are weighing between 90 kg and 120 kg depending on the location of its natural habitat.
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