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/ 23 January 2006

People and wildlife jostle for land in East Africa

Elephants, buffaloes and other wild animals drink water from one side of a swamp, while Maasai warriors watch hundreds of cattle graze on another side as the tropical sun sears the parched land of the wildlife sanctuary. Wildlife officials recently bent stringent conservation regulations to allow cattle into this national park to help the Maasai save precious livestock from a punishing drought.