In 2002, a lioness at Samburu National Park adopted a succession of baby oryx.

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Suguta is a remote valley where people from the Samburu and Turkana communities live in separate villages.

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With private conservancies starting to pop up all across Kenya, the Samburu, Maasai and other pastoralist communities are laughing again.

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The Saruni Samburu Lodge is so perfectly designed that its permanent tents virtually meld into the rocky bluff on which it is located.

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Saruni Samburu, though, sits in the middle of the 384sqkm community-owned and -managed Kalama Community Wildlife Conservancy, one of a growing number of privately-owned wildlife reserves in Kenya.

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The favored mode of exploration is the guided walk: Lemarti or his Samburu cohort Boniface, armed with only a spear, leads visitors on journeys that can last from two hours to five days.

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In the African nation of Kenya, the Samburu tribe is on the verge of a food and economic crisis, the U.N. said, as lengthy droughts kill livestock that provides income and sustenance for the community.

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The bejewelled and feather-dressed Samburu tribesmen must have laughed all the way home when Italian journalist Riccardo Orizio gathered them together a decade ago and told them of his plans to turn a couple of lumpy granite outcrops in the heart of Samburu country into a luxury game lodge overlooking the searing, acacia-speckled plains of northern Kenya.

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