MAASAI MARA NATIONAL RESERVE, Kenya – Maasai elder Ngararika Noompunito beams as he recalls the awe he felt as a boy when herds of bellowing wildebeest passed close to his mud-and-thatch homestead near Kenya’s Maasai Mara National Reserve.
“There used to be many wildebeest coming through here,” the 65-year-old said as he sat next to his wooden-fenced kraal, wearing a wide-brimmed bush hat and a vivid pink shuka, or Maasai shawl.
“Now, they are much less in number and we don’t see them this side anymore. If there are more years when there is little or no rain, maybe the wildebeest will stop coming to Kenya altogether.”
In Kenya, climate change shrinks Maasai Mara wildebeest migration
“There used to be many wildebeest coming through here,” the 65-year-old said as he sat next to his wooden-fenced kraal, wearing a wide-brimmed bush hat and a vivid pink shuka, or Maasai shawl.
“Now, they are much less in number and we don’t see them this side anymore. If there are more years when there is little or no rain, maybe the wildebeest will stop coming to Kenya altogether.”
In Kenya, climate change shrinks Maasai Mara wildebeest migration