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The swamp that ‘invaders’ saved from killer grass

By Harold Ayodo

A visitor at Saiwa Swamp National Park may be surprised see locals wielding machetes and sickles cutting elephant grass and ferrying it away without fear of being detained by Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) warders.

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