Note
Location
Kenya
Subject
Distribution
Species
Black Rhino (bicornis)
A sad item that may be given to show the type of land that is being cleared for the Makueni scheme is to say that 999 rhino had to be shot by white hunters before it was considered safe to open up clearings beyond the tsetse-fly belt. The rhino is an ugly beast, this hangover from prehistoric days, and because his short sight and nervousness makes him charge at anything that moves, is probably the unsafest animal in Africa. Yet it seemed a shame, if the Makueni scheme is not going to be accepted by the Wakambas, to have slaughtered so many of even these unsociable animals.
