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...lies in communal and private hands, where cattle graze alongside herds of eland and antelope. During the annual migration, floods of zebra and wildebeest arrive from Tanzania, and more elephants feed outside the protected area than in it. "Wildlife is just as good as any other gold," says Jackson Looseyia, 41, one of the first Masai to work as a guide in the reserve and co-owner of Rekero, the eight-tent camp where we stay the night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kenya's Blackboard Jungle | 5/6/2009 | See Source »

...seen all the animals she had wanted, but it's her guide she raves about. The young Masai man explained his culture, including the wild plants his tribesmen use to clean their teeth. "They don't go out and buy Colgate, do they?" she tells me. Says Looseyia's partner Gerard Beaton: "The tourists all come for the animals, but in the end it's the people that touch them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kenya's Blackboard Jungle | 5/6/2009 | See Source »

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