IN THE NGONG HILLS, Kenya — Ask Loseti Bois about the hundreds of thousands of cattle that have been slaughtered to prevent the spread of foot-and-mouth disease in Europe, and he winces and groans, ...

A widespread drought in the Horn of Africa is killing the livelihoods of herders. Hundreds of thousands of cattle, camel and other livestock have perished, with their carcasses now littering the ...

A new study has found the pastoral practices of the Indigenous Maasai people of Kenya had almost no discernible positive or negative effect on the ecological well-being of the Maasai Mara National ...

Herding their cattle over the grassy uplands rolling down from Kilimanjaro in what is now Kenya and Tanganyika, the Masai were fierce, sensual warriors who used dung and ochre for hair oil and drank ...

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The Masai are cattle herders living in the East African rift valley they grow no crops and are proud of being a nonagricultural people Cattle are the allimportant source of wealth and social status ...

The Masai giraffe, found only in Tanzania and Kenya, may be more endangered than previously thought, according to new research in the journal Ecology and Evolution. The International Union for ...

Wildlife and domestic livestock, like these zebras and cattle near Kenya's Masai Mara Reserve, cohabit rangeland ecosystems throughout many parts of Africa. This image relates to an article that ...