Live Breaking News & Updates on South Turkana Ecosystem Project

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Owen Kibenge
Terrence McCabe. Credit: Bert Covert.
When locals started showing up with machine guns, AAAS Member and newly elected 2020 AAAS Fellow Dr. Terrence McCabe decided that it became too dangerous to continue exploring communities in Kenya’s Turkana county. Instead, he turned his career on the Badlands of northern Kenya and went south, where he would be happier to be more worried about lions than the guys with machine guns,” he says.
For 31 years now, McCabe – who is the Director of Environment and Society Program of the Institute of Behavioral Science and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Colorado, Boulder – has been working in northern Tanzania on several projects in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Simanjiro plains to the east of Tarangire National Park. This is a lush landscape where the Maasai, a pastoralist community, grazes their livestock alongside lions, elephants and rhinos. ....

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