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Africa own worst enemy in poaching fight – UNEP head

And in the same light, Steiner expressed concern for the future of the Nairobi National Park which has taken a back-seat to the Standard Gauge Railway.

“If you are a hard-nosed decision maker you’d say oh, it is nothing to take a 100 metres. Take aerial photographs of the last 50 years and you can see that it’s a hundred metres and another hundred metres and another hundred metres until Nairobi National Park is now virtually cut off from where animals used to migrate.”

READ: Passage of railway through Nairobi Park unavoidable – Leakey

Kenya’s Environment Minister Judi Wakhungu on Wednesday herself admitted that poachers are not the only threat to Kenya’s wildlife given the encroachment on their protected spaces.

READ: President Kenyatta due at high level UN Environment Assembly session

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