Speedy Trial of Wildlife Crime Suspects in Kenya Not Certain – Report
Nairobi, Aug 24 – High-profile traffickers in illegal wildlife products in Kenya are not being brought to justice with certainty, according to the latest...
Acquittal of Ivory Trafficking Convict a Blow to Justice
By Jim Karani
A Kenyan High Court judge has set free convicted ivory trafficker, Feisal Ali Mohammed, who was serving a 20-year sentence and a...
Kenya Launches Campaign to Boost Awareness of Wildebeest and Whale Migration
Nairobi, Aug 13 – Kenya’s tourism ministry has launched a campaign dubbed Twin Migration to promote awareness of the wildebeest migration in the Masai...
New Study Shows Orphaned Elephants Have a Tougher Social Life
Nairobi, Aug 13 - Young female orphan elephants have a tougher social life than those with mothers, according to a new study that adds...
Poachers kill another rhino in Kenya after multiple pachyderm deaths
Nairobi, July 31 – Suspected poachers have killed a black rhino in Kenya’s Lake Nakuru National Park, bringing the rhinoceros death toll in the...
Kenyan Black Rhinos Died of Stress and Salt Poisoning after Relocation
Nairobi, July 26 - The cause of death of ten critically endangered rhinoceros that perished recently in Kenya after they were moved to a...
Eight Black Rhinos Die in Kenya after Translocation
Nairobi, July 13 - An attempt to translocate the critically endangered black rhinos in Kenya has turned tragic after eight of them died following...
First Northern White Rhino Embryos Produced through In Vitro Fertilisation
Nairobi, July 5 - An international team of scientists has successfully created hybrid embryos from southern white rhino eggs and northern white rhino sperm...
Lake Turkana Parks Put on the List of World Heritage in Danger
Nairobi, June 29 – The World Heritage Committee meeting in Manama, the capital of Bahrain, on June 28 decided to inscribe Kenya’s Lake Turkana...
Grevy’s Zebra Count in Kenya Shows Numbers Rising to Slightly over 2,800
Nairobi, June 25 - The results of the latest count of Grevy’s zebras, one of seven remaining species of equids left on the planet,...
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