In recent years, there has been an increased threat to the existence of the African Manatee owing to the surge of hardship and abject poverty among rural dwellers who are dependent on the wetlands.
The attention of the Biodiversity Preservation Centre was brought to the hunting and killing of a Manatee by the residents of Ntan Oboe Community of the Itu wetlands. However their presence at the scene was met with great hostility by the members of the community while they tried to take tissue samples from the dead animal.
The Biodiversity Preservation Centre has called on the government to provide a different means of ekeing out a living for the rural dwellers as this will give the BPC the moral justification to enforce the law against offenders and has also in strong terms decried the random killings of these mammals.
A request has also been extended to members of the public to join in educating communities both far and wide in the need to become guardians of our planet earth as this will ensure a great future for posterity.
