Sacrificing human needs on the altar of conservation is wrong

A herder at Ol-olchura village in Sekenani location near Maasai Mara National Game Reserve, on June 14, 2020. [File, Standard]

On February 14, 2013, I invited some friends to a ranch I worked in for a weekend charity event that involved building a classroom for a community that bordered the ranch. We enthusiastically set out and assembled everything and everyone we thought we needed for the task.

The community members, male and female, enthusiastically joined in, men loading the tractor, and women fetching water while the fundis worked on setting up the classroom.