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Climate Change Brings Havoc On Kenyan Herders

A Kenyan herder stops at a water source with his carriage.

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17 September 2009 - 9:00pm
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AFRICA, Kenya, Mount kenya region
Samburu pastoralists
cattle, climate change, climate change refugee, drought, ecology, forced migration, herders, Kenya, Masai, samburu, water shortage

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  • Kenyan herders of Samburu and Maasai tribesmen have been hit by climate change. Its the third year now without rains in the Laikipia plains in the Rift Valley. The herders now have to move towards Mount Kenya and anywhere near forests to save their herds from being being wiped out by lack of water and pasture. They are stilldying anyway but they are doing whatever is in their power to save the herds. The government has offered to buy each starving at Ksh 8,000 (about 100 US dollar) but some of the cows are so week they can't even get to the buying centre. Families who depend on the cattle for their food have been left desolate and are depending on well-wishers for relief. The series of the following pictures show the Samburu people going about their daily life amid the devastating drought. Photos/George Mulala
  • Kenyan herders of Samburu and Maasai tribesmen have been hit by climate change. Its the third year now without rains in the Laikipia plains in the Rift Valley. The herders now have to move towards Mount Kenya and anywhere near forests to save their herds from being being wiped out by lack of water and pasture. They are stilldying anyway but they are doing whatever is in their power to save the herds. The government has offered to buy each starving at Ksh 8,000 (about 100 US dollar) but some of the cows are so week they can't even get to the buying centre. Families who depend on the cattle for their food have been left desolate and are depending on well-wishers for relief. The series of the following pictures show the Samburu people going about their daily life amid the devastating drought. Photos/George Mulala
  • Kenyan herders of Samburu and Maasai tribesmen have been hit by climate change. Its the third year now without rains in the Laikipia plains in the Rift Valley. The herders now have to move towards Mount Kenya and anywhere near forests to save their herds from being being wiped out by lack of water and pasture. They are stilldying anyway but they are doing whatever is in their power to save the herds. The government has offered to buy each starving at Ksh 8,000 (about 100 US dollar) but some of the cows are so week they can't even get to the buying centre. Families who depend on the cattle for their food have been left desolate and are depending on well-wishers for relief. The series of the following pictures show the Samburu people going about their daily life amid the devastating drought. Photos/George Mulala
  • Kenyan herders of Samburu and Maasai tribesmen have been hit by climate change. Its the third year now without rains in the Laikipia plains in the Rift Valley. The herders now have to move towards Mount Kenya and anywhere near forests to save their herds from being being wiped out by lack of water and pasture. They are stilldying anyway but they are doing whatever is in their power to save the herds. The government has offered to buy each starving at Ksh 8,000 (about 100 US dollar) but some of the cows are so week they can't even get to the buying centre. Families who depend on the cattle for their food have been left desolate and are depending on well-wishers for relief. The series of the following pictures show the Samburu people going about their daily life amid the devastating drought. Photos/George Mulala
  • Kenyan herders of Samburu and Maasai tribesmen have been hit by climate change. Its the third year now without rains in the Laikipia plains in the Rift Valley. The herders now have to move towards Mount Kenya and anywhere near forests to save their herds from being being wiped out by lack of water and pasture. They are stilldying anyway but they are doing whatever is in their power to save the herds. The government has offered to buy each starving at Ksh 8,000 (about 100 US dollar) but some of the cows are so week they can't even get to the buying centre. Families who depend on the cattle for their food have been left desolate and are depending on well-wishers for relief. The series of the following pictures show the Samburu people going about their daily life amid the devastating drought. Photos/George Mulala

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Climate Change Brings Havoc On Kenyan Herders
George Mulala
Herders from the Samburu region of Kenya move towards Mount Kenya to escape the drought in Laikipia plains. Kenya, 17.09.09

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