Re-emergence of poaching is worrying

For many years, the undisputed foreign exchange earner for Kenya was tourism through tourists flocking coastal hotels, and bush safaris to view wild game. And Kenya had it all and the famed Big Five: the lion, leopard, elephant, rhino and buffalo.

However, a combination of poaching, animal habitat encroachment, environmental degradation, insecurity and international terrorism conspired to relegate tourism below other sectors.