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NAIROBI, Kenya, Sept. 22 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Kenya's Vice President, Hon Moody Awori, today unveiled a US$1.25 million rehabilitation program developed by IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare -- http://www.ifaw.org ) and the Kenya Wildlife Service, to enhance routine operations, research and education and wildlife security within the Tsavo National Park ecosystem. The IFAW-KWS partnership will support in the purchase of vehicles for security patrols as well as for human-wildlife conflict management. The project will also increase and maintain road networks, build rangers' houses, establish and renovate security bases and purchase radio communication systems for use in vast area that is considered the crown jewel of Kenyan wildlife habitat.
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NAIROBI, Kenya - A fire on the slopes of Kenya's tallest mountain is sending big game animals like elephants fleeing for their lives, as wildlife agents and British troops are fighting to put out several fires, officials said Monday. The flames have already consumed hundreds of acres of forest on Mount Kenya, said Paul Udoto, a spokesman for the Kenya Wildlife Service. The fire has covered the spiky mountain in a haze of smoke.
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NAIVASHA, Kenya, March 6 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Kenya's Tourism and Wildlife Minister, Morris Dzoro, launched an anti-wildlife crime course supported by IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare -- http://www.ifaw.org) for high-level law enforcement officials drawn from Kenya Wildlife Service, The Kenya Police and the Lusaka Agreement Task Force. The two-week course at the Kenya Wildlife Service Training School in Naivasha comes in the wake of contraband ivory seizures in Asia late last year suspected to be from elephants illegally killed in East and Central Africa. Mr. Dzoro lauded the initiative, saying it would help to curb illegal trafficking of ivory, rhino horn and other live animals such as reptiles within the region. He said, "Wildlife crime had been worsened by the current drough...
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NAIROBI, Kenya - Poachers seeking ivory have killed five elephants in southeastern Kenya in the past six weeks, a government wildlife official said. The elephants were killed in the Tsavo East National Park and its surrounding areas in southeastern Kenya, said Jonathan Kirui, an assistant director of the Kenya Wildlife Service.
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As the human population in Africa grows, the boundary between cities and wild areas becomes fraught with conflict. Suburban lions are now becoming a problem as habitat shrinks. The lioness lay sleeping in the bed of a dark green pickup, her eyes covered with a soft blue cloth, as a veterinarian in camouflage stood over her. "Ni kubwa!" he said in Swahili: "She's big!
...It took 12 rangers and 3 vets from the Kenya Wildlife Service -- aided by two Land Cruisers, a ...
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NAIROBI, Kenya A searing drought has killed dozens of hippopotamuses and other wild animals in Kenya and neighboring Tanzania, and disrupted the annual migration of wildebeests and zebras between the two East African nations, conservation officials said. Maasai warriors and others are driving tens of thousands of cattle inside Kenya's wildlife sanctuaries in search of pastures and water risking attacks by wild animals, Kenya Wildlife Service spokeswoman Connie Maina said Saturday.
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NAIROBI, Kenya - Rangers suspended efforts to relocate 400 elephants because the upcoming rainy season will make it difficult to transport them, Kenya's Wildlife Service spokeswoman said Saturday. The service has been moving the elephants from a small reserve with too many of the animals to another park 220 miles away. Rangers have so far moved 150 elephants from Shimba Hills National Reserve to Tsavo East National Park, spokeswoman Connie Maina said.
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