Animals and plants, which would you keep?

When I was about six years old, my grandpa had a very large heard of cattle - about 500 cows.

Leading a normadic and substance farming in what used to be vast planes of Kuria land, in Kenya bordering Maasai Mara, he would roam with his heard far-away in search of greener and fresh pastures.

Substance crops such as cassava, Katumani maize, and groundnut, he would later tell, used to act as a hindrance to his free mobilty of his healthy and fattened animals.

As years progressed, keeping a huge animal population became a nightmare, not only to him but also many other kins and tribes men Kuria and Ikwabe Re Kuria (near Maasai Mara Park). Lifelihood and somone's wealth devepened and was tied to these four- legged creatures.

Gradually, human populations increased gradually. Many structures - homesteads were build.

VEGETATION covers were mercilessly and wantonly "destroyed" for various reasons. For many trees, they were fell down to make posts for contructing traditional food storage granaries, houses and semi-houses.

Open, vast green fields were devoured by ox-ploughs, moulded into farmlands producing foodstuffs.

This was not long ago. Just a while ago. What I would call the infamous "Nyayo Era".

Unfortunately, forests are intermittendly being destroyed and hurt in what is currently "percerved as "grabbing the forests".

I am emancipated with anger that, the beautiful green lands I grew up seeing in the villages are no longer "alive". I am saddened that there are no more vast, open grasslands.

Everywhere I go, there are fences, structures and what not what. The once siren environments are a mess with chimming noises from flour mills, hooting cars - looking for passengers, dust from untarmacked roads.Chaos! it is chaos! It is pollution everywhere. Water, land and air pollution. Modern ways of live, tools and other accessories used by mankind are ensuring the planet earth is choked "sawa sawa" ( properly).

This is the ICT generation in the "green lands of Africa". "Things fall a part"! They are so apart in politics, poverty, diseases, hunger and civial wars. Secular is more sweet than holy.

Animals and plants, which shall we keep?