Origins Reconsidered [antikvár]

Pro1o gue For more than two years now, I have lived with constant reminders of danger: armed soldiers guard my house, bodyguards accompany me in my Land Cruiser, and others follow in another vehicle, wherever I drive. I am surprised by how quickly I have become used to their presence, a part of everyday procedure. But I never quite forget that there are people who would rather see me dead than alive. In April 1989 President Daniel arap Moi, Kenya's head of state, surprised me and a great many others by appointing me director of the Kenya Wildlife Service. My job was to put an end to the rampant poaching of elephant and rhinoceros and to establish a structure for managing wildlife, the focus of our tourist industry. This industry is vitally important to Kenya because of the foreign currency iFbnngs into the economy, but by preventing ivory poaching 1 was thwarting powerful people who had been making a lot of money from the awful slaughter. That was why they wanted me out of the way.