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91% of Kenya’s protected areas shrank in 100 years

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Mongabay.com

Publication Date
2014-11-06

Only 5 percent of Kenya has major tree cover today, so it might be surprising to learn that it has some of the oldest national parks in the history of the conservation movement. In 1900, after the first landmark international conference of African wildlife in London, the Southern and Northern Game Reserves were formally created by a colonial government.

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http://news.mongabay.com/2014/1104-gfrn-watsa-kenyas-protected-areas-downsized-4.html