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...subversive. Last week, her fortunes took a different turn when she became the first environmental campaigner - and the first African woman - to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. On Saturday, Maathai talked with TIME's Stephan Faris under a tree outside the offices of her Green Belt Movement in Nairobi. KOFI ANNAN, NELSON MANDELA, MOTHER TERESA, AND NOW YOU. HOW DOES IT FEEL? It is the kind of thing that I'm sure will sink in slowly. But right now, it's like a dream. When you are involved, you actually don't have time to evaluate the impact...
...Sailudari Masekonte, 32, a Masai herdsman. "We can destroy every single fence on this land." And destroy they do. Though the Masai make claims to vast tracts of southern and central Kenya, the most active dispute has arisen on the western slopes of Mount Kenya, 200 km north of Nairobi. In just over a month, the Masai have ripped up dozens of miles of fencing and driven tens of thousands of cattle onto ranchers' fields. Riot police have chased invaders off the land, and used tear gas and bullets to break up demonstrations. The 38 mainly white landowners, most...
This is no photo op in a wildlife park for tourists on safari. This is Mugie Ranch, a commercial livestock operation in Kenya's Laikipia district, about six hours north of Nairobi. Some 14,000 sheep and 1,000 cattle graze here on the open grasslands, tended by 200 ranch hands. Barely a mile from the feasting lions, herders are bringing cattle and sheep into their nighttime pens, raising clouds of red dust. The herders whistle at their dogs, which are on the alert for lions--and for leopards, which go to the nearby water hole at night to feed...
Despite the man-eating lore and the big headlines that follow attacks by tigers or lions that are kept as pets or performers, wild cats are generally able to live in close proximity to humans without disturbing them. Leopards are seen in the suburbs of Nairobi and Kampala. Mountain lions in Waterton, Alta., have been observed using the angles of buildings and even the beds of pickup trucks to conceal themselves when hunting. In the San Diego area, these animals tend to hang out within 100 yds. of trails used by hikers, though they are rarely noticed, according...
...Four years since arriving from Nairobi, Marumba, 48, is hoping communities like Laverton, Coonanna and Norseman will immerse themselves in the waters of his faith. "If you go to most of the Aboriginal communities, you'll find vandalism there," the Kenyan says. "Property has been destroyed. (There's been) no proper handing over, no proper overseeing." The same goes for Christianity, he believes. After the missionary societies began withdrawing from the area in the 1970s, "those people starved spiritually," he says. "Now we are trying to revive - that is what Malarrpa is all about." Three years ago, Marumba approached...