Nairobi, Sept. 16 -- Some privately owned land parcels bordering the southern end of the Nairobi National Park (NNP) may be fenced into the game reserve as part of a radical proposal to save the facility increasingly threatened by human encroachment and pollution.
The park is currently only fenced in on three sides-making its open southern section a big concern amid rising human encroachment on wildlife migratory paths and breeding grounds located in the area.
"To the south of the park residential areas are progressively closing the former wildlife corridors and migratory routes such that the park is increasingly becoming an ecological island," the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS), which manages the game reserve says.
KWS now proposes to bui...