Olarro Conservancy Manager Shot in the Mouth

Police in Narok South have launched a manhunt for a suspect who attacked William Rex Hofmeyr, a manager at Olarro Conservancy.

The 51-year-old manager was shot in the mouth with an arrow on Friday evening while on duty.

According to Narok South OCPD Antony Shimoli, the suspect ambushed Mr. Hofmeyr and injured him.

It was only after the manager shot in the air that his attacker fled into the bushes.

Mr. Hofmeyr was rushed to Ngoswani Community Health Centre where he was treated and discharged.

The motive of the Narok attack is yet to be established.

Olarro Conservancy in the Maasai Mara of Kenya is instrumental and extremely active in various areas of conservation, Socio-economic improvements, anti-poaching, human/wildlife conflict resolution and wildlife rescues, currently mostly elephant, amongst other duties and has developed a model for a network of land conservancy zones focused on securing the integrity of key ecosystem components. Olarro works hard under difficult conditions to protect their ecologically important zones such as wildlife corridors, grassland reserves, watersheds and springs and the Conservancy’s good stewardship of their ecosystem also equates with meaningful sustainable revenue and managed projects to improve the communities living conditions.

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