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Kenyanische Presseartikel

Die kenyanische Regierung veröffentlichte in der Zeitung (Originaltext):

NAIROBI, Kenya, April 19, 2002 (ENS)
Hit by a fresh wave of poaching, Kenyan authorities have deployed a massive hunt for poachers who this week left 15 elephants dead in the Samburu game reserve. This brings to 25 the number of elephants killed this month in Kenya. In early April, the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) reported the slaughter of 10 elephants in the expansive Tsavo East National Park by what was described as a "well organized gang of ivory poachers."

Across the highway from Tsavo West is Tsavo East. Famous for its large herds of elephant, the park has long been at the epicentre of a poaching war which decimated rhino numbers from approximately 8000 in 1970 to less than 50 two decades later. Elephant numbers plummeted from 50,000 in the 1960s to 5,000 twenty years later. For a number of years only the southern third of the park was open to the public because of the danger posed by poachers.

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(added 19th May 2003)
Murder Of Two Rangers In Kenya

The Kenyan Wildlife Service is mourning the loss of two of its game rangers, shot dead by a gang of poachers on 11th May 2003 in Tsavo East National Park, Kenya. A routine patrol encountered the gang, thought to be from a neighbouring country, and engaged them in a fierce fire-fight. Two poachers were also killed and two rifles and many rounds of ammunition recovered. Kenya is opposed to the resumption of the commercial trade in elephant products.