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Hyenas in the Maasai Mara Game Reserve. [File, Standard]
As the sun sinks behind the Maasai Mara, many families living along the edges of the world-famous wildlife ecosystem know their day is over—not because of government orders, but hyenas.
For hundreds of residents bordering the Maasai Mara Game Reserve and neighbouring conservancies, nightfall has become an unwritten dusk-to-dawn curfew. Children are hurried indoors, livestock are locked behind makeshift enclosures, and anyone venturing outside does so with caution as marauding hyenas roam dangerously close to homes.
The predators are not only stealing sheep—they are steadily robbing families of sleep, income and peace of mind.
