The environment ministry will be selling 40 crocodiles to minimise human-wildlife conflict. The crocodiles are all adults and will not be larger than three metres, the ministry.
Despite successes, living with wildlife often carries a cost and growing wildlife populations in communal and freehold farming areas result in more frequent conflict between people.
As the human-wildlife conflict escalates in the region, at least eleven lions have been killed in southern Kenya this past week, including six on Saturday itself, according to the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS).
The environment ministry annually budgets N$285 million to address human-wildlife conflict in the country.This includes the availing of resources for salaries, overtime, vehicles,.
The Ndurumo parish Chairperson, Mr Moses Tayebwa said the revenue sharing scheme run by UWA was well-intentioned but left out some areas yet animals affect all neighboring communities