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Farmers count losses as Climate Change drives monkeys into homes

This Monkey encroached Sopa Lodge and snatched an egg in Naivasha, Nakuru County. [Jonah Onyango, Standard] 

At first light in Kuoyo village, Yimbo East, Boniface Ochieng walks through his fruit farm, stopping occasionally to lift a fallen mango or inspect a broken banana stem. Most of the fruits lie half-eaten on the ground.

“They came in the morning and by evening, the farm was empty," he says quietly.

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