Humans first, then animals

During the 2014–2016 record droughts, cattle ranchers in the west fought for rapidly declining, drought ravaged pasture with the safari industry, which argued that wildlife brought revenues of a more sustainable and less fickle nature.

In those years in the north, the little yield crop farmers were expecting was imperilled by the encroachment of elephants, desperate for nourishment in a difficult year. Predators such as lions, hyenas and leopards routinely raided livestock resulting in high losses for farmers.