Residents of Akingli village in Kisumu have resorted to trapping and transporting baboons to the local Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) office following a surge in attacks on their farms by the primates.<\/p>\n
The residents say they are counting heavy losses after the animals destroyed crops that were ready for harvest and have also started attacking people.<\/p>\n
However, KWS has warned residents against handling wildlife, saying the animals can be dangerous.<\/p>\n
At 8am on Tuesday, Nikanor Bodo secured a cage onto his tricycle. Inside, two young baboons moved around as the ground nearby remained scattered with mangoes, evidence of the raid carried out at the homestead on Monday night.<\/p>\n
\u201cMbegu yenye niliweka kwa nyumba ziliharibu. Nikiwaachia watoto kwa nyumba wanachukua wanaenda nayo, hata vitabu ya watoto wanabeba wanakimbia nayo. Sasa nani anahudumia mimi?\u201d Said Nikanor.<\/p>\n
Beyond the destruction of farms, some residents are nursing injuries, saying the baboons often attack early in the morning and move in groups, making their presence known before striking.<\/p>\n
The Kenya Wildlife Service has cautioned residents against directly handling the animals.<\/p>\n
\u201cMnyama ni hatari sana, anaweza muumiza na hawa wanyama wanakuwanga na magonjwa hatari sana. Hatungependa mwananchi aumizwe, na ni sisi tulienda tukaweka mtego,\u201d said Grace Kariuki, Senior Warden, Kisumu.<\/p>\n
KWS says it will deploy officers to the area in an effort to manage the escalating human-wildlife conflict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residents of Akingli village in Kisumu have resorted to trapping and transporting baboons to the local Kenya Wildlife…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[137619,137618,85,46,91924,141,386],"class_list":["post-261523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-akingli-village","tag-baboon-menace","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-kisumu","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}