Why Lake Kamnarok’s death is a disaster for the ecosystem

Locals and Kenya Wild Life service offers trying to assist one of the three elephants that got stuck in Mud at Lake Kamnarok National Game reserve in Baringo North on April 1, 2019. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]

Except for random patches of water that dot the vast fields, everything else looks like a paddy field right in what used to be a lake within Lake Kamnarok National Reserve in Baringo County.

Lying within the base of Kerio belt, overlooking the scenic Elgeyo-Marakwet escarpments, Lake Kamnarok once boasted of being among the few ox-bow lakes in the country and a home to thousands of crocodiles.