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Elephant baby boom in Kenya — numbers double over three decades

· December 8, 2020 ·

Efforts to curb poaching have helped Kenya’s elephant population more than double over the past three decades, the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) announced on Wednesday. There were just 16,000 elephants in Kenya in 1989, but by 2018 that number had grown to more than 34,000, KWS Director John Waweru said during a visit to Amboseli National Park to mark World Elephant Day. “In the past couple of years, we have managed to tame poaching in this country,” Kenya Tourism Minister Najib Balala told reporters at the event. Read more: Corona-hit tourism in Kenya leaves elephant conservation ‘staring at an uncertain future’ As part of the event, Balala helped to tag a bull elephant and named a pair of twin calves. “Today we are also launching the Magical Kenya elephant naming campaign, an annual festival whose objective will be to collect funds from the naming, to support the Rangers welfare,” Balala said, referring to the armed guards whose task is to deter poachers. ”This year alone, about 170 elephant calves have been born.” The threat of poaching The number of elephants poached in Kenya in 2020 is down significantly from previous years — just seven so far this year, compared to 34 in 2019 and 80… Read full this story

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