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NAIVASHA, Kenya (AP) - For the farmers of Kenya, life is a constant contest for grass and water between their herds and the wild animals that share the land. Now they are waging a new struggle, this time against the international animal welfare lobby.
Pleading poverty, the farmers want to open their land to wealthy fee-paying hunters. The advocacy groups are firmly opposed. The standoff has made Kenya the latest and perhaps most dramatic arena for the international debate over hunting and its role in financing conservation.
A million tourists a year spend more than $580 million to see and photograph lions, elephants, gazelle and other wildlife on this East African country's savannas. But the revenue is not enough to protect the animals.
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