Bushmeat poaching is on the rise in Kenya as Covid hunger drives hunt for antelopes and giraffes By Scott McLean , Bethlehem Feleke , Solomon Muingi and Fabien Muhire , CNN 8 minute read ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) – Two armed gangs killed four rhinos for their horns in rural Kenya this week in possibly the worst rhino poaching incident in the country in more than 25 years, the spokesm… ...

Kenya has been deeply affected by the global poaching crisis—it's estimated that the early 1970s elephant population, which was 167,000-strong, has fallen to a mere 32,000, and its 20,000 rhinos ...

Experts in Kenya fear poaching, deforestation are surging during COVID-19 lockdown "Some are driven by desperation, others by profit," an official says. By Maggie Rulli. May 5, 2020, 5:18 AM.

At the time, Kenya was facing a serious crisis, losing about 4,000 elephants to poaching a year. Then-President Daniel arap Moi torched 12 tons of ivory in the first burn.

The years 2011, 2012 and 2013 witnessed the highest levels of poaching since a poaching crisis in the 1980s, according to Kenya’s Wildlife Service. Pyres of ivory burn into the night in Nairobi ...

The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) director William Kiprono announced Wednesday that 384 elephants had been killed in Kenya the previous year because of poaching. He says poaching is fueled by ...

Kenya is suffering from a problem, ... “This shows that poaching has been low and the elephants have been able to thrive,” Kanga said. Sign up for the Breaking News newsletter.

Illegal ivory poaching once posed a significant threat to Kenya’s elephants. But now the giants of the animal kingdom are facing an even bigger risk: climate change. As Kenya battles its worst ...

Kenya’s tourism chiefs say poaching has been on a downward trend largely thanks to enhanced wildlife law-enforcement efforts and investment in conservation.

Bushmeat poaching is on the rise in Kenya as Covid hunger drives hunt for antelopes and giraffes By Scott McLean , Bethlehem Feleke , Solomon Muingi and Fabien Muhire , CNN 8 minute read ...