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Article: Working with the locals
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 15, 1996
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Lake Nakuru is one of the crowning glories of the natural
world. More than one million flamingos cover its shallow alkali
waters in a shimmering pink haze. Over 450 other bird species live
around it, as do leopards, lions, black and white rhino, and many
other rare animals and plants. The lake and the surrounding land,
in Kenya's Rift Valley is a National Park - and it is encircled by
an electrified, chain-link fence.
The fence has not kept out the outside world. The National Park,
even when first set up, was less than a mile from the town of
Nakuru the fourth largest in the country - and it has now expanded
to within yards of the fence. Sewage and industrial effluents have
flowed into ...