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Excerpt of an Associated Press story by Rodrique Ngowi, March 2, 2006
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"Kenya is not the only East African nation struggling to ensure that wildlife and people can share water and land. Ethiopian authorities have relocated members of local ethnic groups from the Nech-Sar National Park and handed over its management to a private firm.

The Netherlands-based African Parks Foundation is expected to take over Ethiopia's Omo National Park, home to the Mursi, very tall nomads famous for the huge clay plates inserted into the lips and earlobes of the women.

Government plans to evict the Mursi "would severely disrupt their present economy, a semi-nomadic mix of cattle herding, riverbank cultivation following the Omo flood, and bushland cultivation following the main rains," Survival, a London-based group that helps tribal people, said on its Web site.

Ethiopia's government says it needs to develop the tourism industry, which is Africa's second-largest source of foreign exchange after oil."