{"id":257578,"date":"2026-01-22T07:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T07:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/257578\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T07:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T07:47:09","slug":"predators-of-the-great-wildebeest-migration-then-and-now-cartoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/257578\/","title":{"rendered":"Predators of the Great Wildebeest Migration: Then and now (cartoon)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/26_web.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-313138\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"inner\">While ecotourism has contributed both to wildlife conservation and community welfare in Kenya, over-tourism and the corporatization of ecotourism are now proving to be literal impediments in the ecological webs of the Kenyan wilderness. A Maasai leader recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/environment\/kenyan-activist-tries-block-new-ritz-carlton-safari-lodge-opening-2025-08-12\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\">took legal action<\/a> against luxury chain Ritz-Carlton, claiming that its new lodge in Kenya\u2019s Maasai Mara Reserve obstructs a crucial wildebeest migration corridor.<\/p>\n<p>                    <img alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/cc6285493e7c37b5577de1889c35d6f0236b21810fcf0aaaf92d2e37adb1576e.png\"  class=\"avatar avatar-32 photo\" height=\"32\" width=\"32\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/>        <\/p>\n<p>                            <a href=\"\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                &#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; While ecotourism has contributed both to wildlife conservation and community welfare in Kenya, over-tourism and the corporatization&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,82,263],"class_list":["post-257578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}