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Once blamed for elephant deaths, locals take lead in conservation

Women discussing the best way to prepare elephant meat after irate villagers in Nchoroiboro, Meru slaughtered an elephant that killed three people on June 27, 2019. [File, Standard]

At the height of animal-human conflict around the Imenti Forest in Meru, elephants and people died by their numbers.

A month hardly passed without a casualty on both sides.

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