Petition: Demand Humanitarian Relief in Kenya

Sabuli, a region in the northeast of Kenya, is receiving less than 30% of its usual, annual rainfall.  According to Al Jazeera, while residents have faced severe droughts in the past, this drought is something exceptional: “if no rainfall comes by the end of the year, as experts predict, it will be the third consecutive poor rain season since December 2020.”

The drought is creating dire conditions both for people and for wildlife.  More than 465,000 children and 93,000 pregnant and breastfeeding women across northern Kenya are already malnourished.  Zenab Kule, a 25-year-old Kenyan woman who is six months pregnant, is already seeing symptoms of malnutrition in her two toddlers, who have nothing to eat but maize.

Kenya’s wildlife is suffering from the same weather-induced calamities.  A photojournalist, Ed Ram, captured this image of six emaciated giraffes in the Sabuli Wildlife Conservancy.  The animals, weakened by starvation and dehydration, could not make their way through the mud.  And according to the Star, over 4,000 more giraffes risk dying from dehydration—in part because farming activities are blocking their access to rivers.

Sign this petition urging the United Nations to provide humanitarian relief and wildlife assistance as quickly as possible.

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