There are people living near, but outside, of the Samburu Game Reserve. The park was part of the traditional lands belonging to the Samburu people. As national parks are created, the latest being Laikipia National Park in 2011, more people are evicted from their ancestrial lands. Well meaning conservation groups, primarily American and British, have sought to connect the various parks to one another. This would provide a continuous protected area for animal migrations. Toward this end these groups have either purchased or lobbied the Kenyan government to acquire the land. The government, seeing increased revenue from eco-tourism, usually comes down on the side of the conservation groups and so the Samburu must go. The Samburu are semi-nomadic herders of cattle, sheep and goats. The name they use for themselves is Lokop. The Samburu are a gerontocracy where the elders make the rules. They practice poligamy and a man may have multiple wives. Each woman has her own house, which she builds with the help of other women out of local materials, such as sticks, mud and cow dung. Just outside the park we passed a Samburu village, or Manyatta. We stopped just long enough for a few pictures.