Maasai

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NAIROBI—A Kenyan court dismissed a lawsuit by a Maasai leader who sought to demolish a Ritz-Carlton luxury safari camp, alleging it blocked a key route of the famous Serengeti migration.

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Dapash, an elder of the Maasai ethnic group and head of the Maasai Environmental Resource Coalition, had argued the new camp stands at a critical point on the Sand River where wildebeest and zebra cross as they move from Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park to Kenya’s Maasai Mara National Reserve and adjacent conservancies in search of grass.

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She also ruled he hadn’t provided enough initial evidence to justify an order halting the camp’s operations, while Lazizi Mara had presented the required environmental licenses and proof that it had consulted with the Maasai community about the development.

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Tensions between development and conservation have been growing in the Maasai Mara, where the number of camps and lodges, many built along scenic rivers, has nearly doubled over the past decade.

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Maasai herders in Kenya and Tanzania are paid around $600 for each cow killed by predators, on the condition that no predators are killed in retaliation, according to conservationists.

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