The CEO of the Nairobi-based African Wildlife Foundation, Kaddu Sebunya - in London to mark AWF's 60th anniversary while fundraising and lobbying - shares his thoughts with IPS on the climate and food crises, how Africans have their voice, why western countries need a 'reset' with Africa, what Prince Charles should say to the Commonwealth, how China is eating western 'cake', and what worries him more than anything else.
"It has a huge impact because everything is interconnected. In Kenya, we lost about 78 elephants to drought in Tsavo National Park [in the nine months to April]. That's more than any poaching, higher than any cause of death of elephants in the last 15 years. Elephants are a key species - when they suffer, we know what's going to happen to the plants, the frogs, the butterflies, the trees. They are a key we use to measure the health of the ecosystem.
And at the global level, you see in central and west Africa the impact on migration. We see rural areas emptying and young people moving to urban areas with no skills. Especially women and young girls suffer more. The young boys are recruited into terrorist groups or trafficked to Europe. So the repercussions of this are not just natural resources... it distorts the whole set-up, entire cultural systems, the entire social network and safety nets, and breaks down government systems...
The hard work in that formula is how to mobilise communities in that business unit. What works for that is our relationships with government. You can't do that in isolation to policies and laws... the conservation approach is political, economic and social. It's not about the science of conservation. It's not about the behaviour of elephants and rhinos.
I told the European Union parliament and some folks here in the UK in the discussion about China that it's tiring when you hear UK officials or EU officials complaining about China. For an African it's really tiring. And I have been telling them: look China is not eating Africa's cake, China is eating UK, French and German and Italian cake in Africa...
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