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The seizures in Kenya were part of what officials said was the largest-ever anti-poaching operation in East Africa, involving authorities in six states. "Tons of illegal ivory have been seized and hundreds of people arrested in the largest-to-date international...
Tags: The Kenya Wildlife Service, East Africa, Eastern Africa, wildlife crime, Interpol, Uganda, Kampala, Environment, Ivory, Elephant, Kenya, Kenya Wildlife Service, Poaching, Animal welfare, Animal rights
Africa is in the area of the pre-epidemic and so we should prevent the epidemic," he told the BBC World Service. "We should not wait until there is an epidemic and then work on it...Tobacco-related cancer was one of the key topics discussed at a recent...
Tags: Tanzania, Kenya Wildlife Service, Dar es Salaam, Elephant, Elephants, Poaching, Kenya, Animal rights, Animal welfare, Ivory, Environment, Cigar, World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, Tobacco advertising, Tobacco smoking, Tobacco, Smoking, Cigarette
From a tree-shaded plateau facing Mount Kenya, the worshippers gaze anxiously at its melting icecap and wonder: Is God dead? For 7 million Kenyans who rely on the runoff of Africa's second-highest peak to survive, evaporating springs and dry riverbeds...
Tags: Mount Kenya, Kenya Wildlife Service, Jomo Kenyatta, melting ice, climate change, face mount, Africa, Kenya, Nairobi, Stratovolcanoes, Mau Mau Uprising, Kikuyu, Eastern Province, Great Rift Valley, Environment
The officers shoved and pushed journalists who were part of a group invited by the Kenya Wildlife Service to Mr Moreno-Ocampo’s tour. Confrontation A female radio journalist was manhandled near the park’s gate and a confrontation ensued as journalists...
Tags: Mr Luis Moreno Ocampo, Kenya Wildlife Service, Mr Moreno-Ocampo, ICC
World’s fastest man comes face-to-face with something he cannot outrun The world’s fastest man has met something he won’t be able to outrun — his new adopted cheetah cub. Usain Bolt and Prime Minister Raila Odinga on Monday launched a new programme...
Tags: Kenya Wildlife Service, Usain Bolt, Mwai Kibaki, prime minister, ICC, Raila Odinga, minister raila
The world’s celebrities in athletics Usain Bolt of Jamaica and Britain’s former world record holder Colin Jackson are in Kenya for a noble mission: to conserve the environment. The two prominent gentlemen, riding on the sponsorship of German Jochen Zeitz...
Tags: Usain Bolt, Kenya Wildlife Service, fastest man, man adopts
Kenya's largest water catchment area - threatening everything from the spectacular annual migration of the wildebeest to pastoralism, agriculture and hydro-power generation, has dominated public debate for the better part of 2009. The government’s plan...
Tags: Kenya Wildlife Service, Kenya, Nairobi
The alarm has been sounded – the population of lions in Kenya is dwindling. If not taken care of right now, the memory of the Lion would be only in the logo of MGM or in the DVD of Lion King, the animated marvel. It is reported by the Kenya Wildlife...
Tags: Kenya Wildlife Service, lion king, mgm
Kenya's last lions within 20 years, wildlife officials warned. Kenya either stabilises its population at the current population of 2,000 lions or increases the numbers to an ecologically acceptable level," Paul Udoto, of the Kenya Wildlife Service, said...
Tags: Kenya Wildlife Service, Paul Udoto
The blood on some of the 16 elephant tusks and two rhino horns suggested the animals had been killed recently, said Patrick Omondi of the biodiversity and research division of the Kenya Wildlife Service. The contraband was hidden in wooden boxes shaped...
Tags: Kenya Wildlife Service, rhino horn, Kenya Airways, Jomo Kenyatta Airport