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Trapped for tourism: Inside Kenya's cruel wildlife farming industry

  Wild animals are being captured from the wild and subjected to inhumane conditions in commercial wildlife farming facilities. [File, Standard]

From poaching to farming and trading, Kenya’s wildlife is facing a new crisis. What once was a fight against snares, guns and bush meat has now shifted into a more organised and less visible threat: commercial wildlife farming.

This is not what the government of Kenya envisioned when they started issuing licenses for wildlife farming.

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