The Gambia: Wildlife/Farmer Conflict in CRR Aggravates as Hippos Go on Rampage Again

Jul 8, 2024 | Momodou Justice Darboe, TheVoice
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The long-standing conflict between farmers and hippopotamuses in the Gambia’s Central River Region (CRR) has rekindled in recent times as hippos ravaged rice fields and caused pre-harvest losses to rice growers, this medium gathered from multiple sources.

The relations between CRR’s rice growers and the region’s hippos were never smooth but conservation laws and efforts have, for many years, largely protected the hippo population in the area from angry farmers.

The Gambian leader Adama Barrow was late last year severely rebuked and criticized for receiving at his Mankamang Kundaresidence a poached hippo gifted to him by a famous hunter.