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KENYA 1967. UNDP FAO Assistance to the Range Management Division of the Kenya Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry

December 1967 (exact date unknown). Kenya. A stunned wildebeest is looked at by Mr. V. Bunderson (USA), right, head of the UNDP/FAO project team attached to Kenya's Range Management Division. With him are journalist, Rennie Airth, and two assistants.

01/01/1967

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In the late 1960s, the Kenyan Government formulated an ambitious and comprehensive plan to make the livestock industry more efficient and boost exports. The plan was subsidized by the United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP) Special Fund and FAO. The experts studied land use, rangeland use, wild animal biology, livestock
improvement and game control. Wild animals had to be taken into account in rangeland management plans, since they were a valuable tourist attraction for the country and their meat could help to feed people. These wild animals
also had to be controlled, because they could spread diseases to livestock and compete for pasture lands. The future role of wild animals on Kenya’s rangelands was closely studied as part of the project. Animals were often hunted using a helicopter and stunned with
an anesthetic dart fired from an air gun, so that they could be examined and marked to track their future
movements.