Topic: Kenya Wildlife Service

KWS Launches Wildlife Monitoring System

The Kenya Wildlife Service has launched the ranger-based Management Information System programme for routine collection of wildlife conservation...

Kenya seizes giant haul of smuggled ivory

Kenyan authorities seized 727 pieces of ivory in a container at the main port of Mombasa in one of the largest hauls of tusks in recent years, officials said Thursday."We had a suspicion of the contents, and that is why we ...
Kenyan rangers on Thursday began relocating 50 rampaging elephants to the renowned Maasai Mara game reserve to stem rising human deaths and property destruction in outlying villages.The first four of the elephants due to be relocated over the next 10 days ...

Kenya's construction boom hurting unique game park

NAIROBI (Reuters) - A construction boom risks destroying a game park on the Kenyan capital's edge, where lions hunt in the shadows of skyscrapers, a wildlife official said.Nairobi has a population of about three million people but that is expected to ...

Kenya arrests Thai woman in airport ivory bust

Kenyan police arrested a Thai woman at Nairobi airport as she checked in for a flight to Bangkok with 20 kilogrammes of illegal ivory, the wildlife service said on Sunday.The woman was arrested Saturday night while in transit from Maputo in ...

Kenya arrests two Singaporeans in ivory bust

Kenyan police arrested two Bangkok-bound Singaporeans who were checking in 92 kilos of illegal raw ivory at Nairobi airport, the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) said Saturday.The cargo, packed in four suitcases, was ready to board a midnight Kenya Airways flight to ...
Kenya wildlife agents kill 2 poachers found shooting at a herd of elephants in national parkThe Kenya Wildlife Service says their agents killed two suspected poachers who they found shooting at a herd of elephants in one of the country's famous ...
Please don't ever buy artifacts, small or large, of 'ivory'. Mwaluganje Elephant Sanctuary, in the Kwale District of Kenya's Coastal Province was created in 1933 to preserve a large corridor along an ancient elephant migration route with the aim to ...
Kenyan wildlife agents kill 3 suspected poachers after slaughter of 5 elephants for ivoryThe Kenya Wildlife Service says three suspected poachers have been killed after the poaching deaths of five elephants in two national parks over the last week.The wildlife service ...
Kenya seizes 2 tons of ivory destined for Malaysia and concealed in boxes of fruitWildlife officers have seized two tons of elephant ivory and five rhino horns at Kenya's main airport.Paul Udoto, a spokesman for the Kenya Wildlife Service, said ...