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...claim that they have been euchred out of their ownership of what may be the world's richest ruby mine by some well-connected Kenyans. It all started about a year ago, when John M. Saul, 37, and his partner Elliot ("Tim") Miller discovered in Kenya's Tsavo West National Park a deposit of rubies that was later estimated to be worth at least $5 million. Saul and Miller got a fully legal permit to develop their find. Figuring local participation would ease their way, they shrewdly offered 51% of the deal to a group of high-ranking...
Late in the week, Rogers conferred in Nairobi with Kenyan President Jomo Kenyatta, then planned to spend the weekend watching elephants in the wild splendors of Tsavo National Park, 150 miles from the capital. "Let's not call it a day off," he told his staff. "Let's call it a fact-finding expedition." Facts, after all, are what he is looking for -and over the next stops on his ten-country, two-week trip-Zambia, the Congo, Cameroun, Nigeria, Ghana and Liberia-Rogers will be looking hard for areas in which U.S. aid can be more effectively...
Uprooted Forests. Similar forays are taking place throughout the game parks of East Africa. Protected by the rigid enforcement of poaching laws and strict limits on trophy hunters, the population of big game has exploded beyond all bounds. There are now 20,000 elephants in Tsavo alone, and another 20,000 have been counted in the Zambezi River Valley between Zambia and Rhodesia. In Uganda's Murchison Falls National Park, the pachyderms are packed in at a density of between five and 40 elephants per square mile...
...proliferating herds of hippo, buffalo and giraffe add to the problem, and as a result, African game parks are badly overgrazed and their enormous herds are faced with famine. Tsavo's hungry elephants have uprooted entire forests of thorn trees, turned giant baobab trees into twisted wreckage in their search for edible shrubbery. Parts of the Zambezi Valley, according to one conservationist, "look as though an atom bomb had exploded in the area...
Birth Control. For reasons that ecologists are unable to explain, the elephants themselves seem to be aware of the danger-and have begun to practice birth control of sorts. At Tsavo, where the elephant population has entered a "cycle of despair," the mating age of young cows has been mysteriously delayed by three years, and the interval between their offspring has nearly doubled from four years to seven. Such natural controls are not enough, however. Game experts agree that the only solution is the final solution-a bullet...