NAIROBI, Kenya –– Pioneering Kenyan journalist and wildlife advocate who until his untimely demise worked very closely with Africa Network for Animal Welfare (ANAW), Sidney Quntai Tauwo, 57, died on the morning of April 20, 2018 after a short illness.

Sidney Quntai was the third person prominently involved in Kenyan wildlife conservation to die in only 75 days. His death followed the February 5, 2018 unsolved murder of ivory trafficking expert Esmond Bradley Martin Jr., 75, and the April 12, 2018 death from breast cancer of David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust founder Daphne Sheldrick, 83.

Quntai formed the Human Wildlife Conflict Network in 2004, hoping to help resolve tensions between wildlife conservationists and impoverished farmers whose crops are often raided by animals wandering out of the Kenyan national parks. A year later, in 2005, Quntai helped to find the Kenya Coalition for Wildlife Conservation & Management, with ANAW as its secretariat, and which he chaired until his death.

Quntai will be remembered for his steadfast belief, fierce stance and bold readiness to fight for the justice of wildlife, the environment and the community. Sidney was always at the front line as he intensely lobbied, picketed and advocated for both protected and unprotected wildlife territories to remain untouched.

https://www.animals24-7.org/2018/05/04/kenyas-wildlife-should-remain-in-the-wild-sidney-quntai-57/