What I find it interesting that homo sapiens tend to think of the earth as "their property". Animals have the right to this place too... they are like you. It's bad enough that you have put them in an enclosure - you now want to kick them out because you have failed to plan for the area you have already? What a wasteful species. You have tracts of land in kiambu unoccupied and laying fallow or being used to "grow maize" and you dare look lustfully at a wildlife sanctuary. Shape up.

It may shock you but the universe does not exist for your happiness and convenience.

The sad thing is that it's not for survival purposes i.e. for us to survive animals must die...it's for convenience. Yet we have the means to "develop" alternatives we just find it inconvenient.

Over 100 years ago, Homo Sapiens were building a railway across Tsavo and some maneless Panthera Leo terrorized Homo Sapiens, attacking them in their sleep. Many Bahindi and Baafrigha labourers lost their lives. Nature will fight back again. Ngoja tu.

NNP may not survive the next few years but for reasons completely outside this debate.
There is extremely high rural and other urban migration to Nairobi post the devolution bubble.

Possibly 40% of all Kenya votes will reside in Nairobi by 2022.

Adjacent/ expansion land is mainly held by speculators yet purchase power among <30 is shrinking.

A 'Mwenje' happens; imagine what becomes to animals if just 10,000 angry, hungry and high youths occupy the park even for 1 week.

To protect the NNP (and of course many other urban needs and externalities thereof), a serious economic stimulus is needed in Kenya.

Looking at the current political actors, such stimulus may be a generation or a revolution away.

As for NNP and SGR - let us save our time and efforts. Reli will pass through the park - there is no viable counter-route, no credible counter-advocacy and you-know-who already played his cards well with key appointment at KWS.