As prolonged drought plagues the Horn of Africa, some people perceive animals as a threat to scarce resources, while other communities rally to protect the creatures
Ali worries that one day this entire area will be fenced in, and giraffes will be pushed out of their ancestral home altogether. Goat and sheep herders mind their livestock as they drink from a watering hole in Sabuli Conservancy. The men had just chased off a thirsty warthog that had come to drink. Drought has killed livestock such as goats, camels, and donkeys, driving many pastoralists to give up their way of life.
Yussuf estimates that 63 giraffes were killed by poachers across the northeast in 2021. Over a five day period in March 2022, refugees killed three giraffes in and around Sabuli, likely to sell the meat in butcher stalls in the camp and across the border in Somalia. The rangers consider burning all the firewood to teach the young men a lesson but decide against it. The dry conditions could cause uncontrollable wildfires. Instead, they knock down the carts, spilling the contents of five days of labor onto the ground. When the rangers are gone, the refugees will pick up each log and place it back in the carts. They have rented these carts from businessmen in Dadaab and cannot risk showing up empty-handed.
Gedi is from Eyrib, a town outside Wajir that depends on several large reservoirs built by the government back in the 1980s. But in the final months of 2021, most nearly dried up because of the drought. Since then, giraffes, unable to find any other water, travel to drink from the small muddy puddles still left in the center of the huge reservoirs.
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