To move giraffes in Kenya from a flooding island to a safe new home, onetime enemies cooperated—and built a modern-day ark
There was a time, not long ago, when peace between the Pokot and the Ilchamus seemed impossible. Living along the shores of Kenya’s Lake Baringo, the two communities had spent decades waging war over cattle, land, and water—turning one of Kenya’s most biodiverse regions into a barren battlefield.In 2006 Pokot and Ilchamus elders reached a truce in their bitter conflict.
In 2011 the conservancy received its first group of Rothschild’s giraffes: eight animals relocated from other areas in hopes that they’d multiply and repopulate the area. The giraffes were placed on a peninsula in Lake Baringo, where they could be easily protected from poachers. Despite disastrous flooding and a global pandemic, people from the Ruko Conservancy, Kenya Wildlife Service, Save Giraffes Now, and Northern Rangelands Trust came together to rescue the giraffes. On this run, the barge carried a female named Pasaka off the island.After years of harmony, disaster struck. Heavy rains fell,many parts of Kenya’s Rift Valley, including Lake Baringo. By 2020 the lake’s rising waters had displaced more than 5,000 people and destroyed schools, hospitals, and homes.
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