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    "content": "which is supposed to take care of wildlife has towards the public, then they are not helping themselves or this country but making things worse for us. Madam Temporary Speaker, it is in the public domain that poaching is going on unabated and animals are being killed. That is why we are exporting ivory disguised as Kenyan tea. The other day, we were told that exhibits which are impounded at the port still find their way to the market. The whole system including the courts, the KRA and many agencies are involved in the system. The earlier Kenyans took their responsibilities seriously, the earlier the KWS realized that they are better off with the public on their side. I am sure they will have easy time if they engage with communities next to the park. They should engage with the communities next to the park. The communities are sacrificing a lot. If they are farmers, they are losing their crops to these animals. If they are pastoralists, they face problems from marauding lions. We should understand that we need to protect wildlife. But if the organization which is supposed to protect is the one which is again turning the public against the wildlife by punishing them for being next to a national park, then I am sure that we will have a lot of problems with our conservation strategies. So, the earlier the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) Board looks into this issue and develops citizen-friendly policies, which will allow the citizenry to participate in the conservation and benefit directly, the better. It should not only be stated in the national budget that tourism is one of the main foreign exchange earners, but they should feel that earning as a community living next to the park. Madam Temporary Speaker, I support the idea that the Senate has to take it upon itself to send these two Committees on a fact-finding mission regarding this conflict and report back, preferably with ways of making sure that KWS is restructured in such a way that they always have the interest of the public at heart instead of just being protectors of wildlife against even the public to the extent of killing a human being. But if that human being kills an animal, then he is taken in. I support the Motion and hope that from this fact-finding mission, we will go ahead and propose amendments to even the laws which govern this sector, so that we have a better way of dealing with human-wildlife conflict. We should limit what the KWS rangers can do, because they have exceeded their limits and taken upon themselves to kill Kenyans at will in the name of protecting wild animals, which are dying in numbers and we are busy exporting their parts. I beg to support the Motion with amendment."
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