In Pictures
Batting for the ‘Last Male Standing’
Kenya’s Maasai Cricket Warriors play to raise awareness of the last surviving male northern rhino.
Laikipia National Park, Kenya – The Maasai Cricket Warriors from Kenya were in action against the British Army Training Unit (BATUK) during a charity tournament aimed at raising awareness of the plight of endangered animals.
The semi-nomadic cattle herders from Kenya took part in the tournament called the “Last Male Standing” organised in the Laikipia National Park, Kenya – home of the last surviving male northern white rhino named “Sudan”.
The rhino, whose horns have been removed to reduce the incentive for poachers, is guarded 24 hours a day by armed rangers.
The Kenyan tribesmen use cricket to actively campaign against retrogressive traditional practises, including female genital mutilation, early childhood marriages and discrimination against women in Maasailand.