Leave the issues of the wild to the wild please.Any person who links the post elections violence with annual wildbeasts migration in mara region misses the point by a mile.This annual wild spectacle will/has ocurred since time immemorial and nothing will affect it,violence or none,tourists in numbers or a trickle of them.Its just a natural phenomenon.I also doubt whether poachers will make a dent on sheer numbers of the animals involved.

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I think this is absolutely disgusting. IF the respective governments do not take action then the world outside must intervene to put a stop to this poaching once and for all.

I dont think we have to wait to destroy this natural wonder and then start thinking to rebuild once lost

Angry Kenyan – The migration of the wildebeest has not been going on since time immemorial; it started in the 70s.

The collapse in tourism has had a detrimental affect on conservation work right across Kenya, and this is on top of the fact that wildlife populations have been rapidly decreasing for the last twenty years.

Pull your head out of the sand.

When will the polticians and the media realize that we won the war in Ira q in one week! Why does everyone keep talking about winning the war? Myself and all of my friends dont get it!! We won the war OK so dont say we need to win the war any more!! We are just trying to help Iraq win the peace!!!

Angry Kenyan,

While what you say sounds attractive, unfortunately it is not a good fit for human-wildlife interactions. In North America, a species called the Bison roamed the vast plains of the interior, migrating in herds so dense and so vast that they stopped trains for days. Estimates for the population of the species ranged upwards from 60 million.

Hunters very nearly wiped the bison out. Only a a few dozen escaped the slaughter, and they only by individual intervention. Had two or three people taken a bullet to the head in civil commotion or even by accident, the bison would have gone the way of the Dodo.

Don Anderson,

This may be the wrong place for a discussion of the Iraq war, but it's worth noting in any reply that a war is not a military operation. It is, as Clauswitz noted, the effort to impose our will on the enemy. A war is not over until that will has either been imposed by us ... or on us.

The length of the "War in Iraq" or the "American invasion of 2002" (depending on your viewpoint) depends entirely on what war objectives the parties involved define – how they determine "success" or "failure".

The article is good in itself without rying to put an angle..