Aug 19, 2020
On World Elephant Day, Aug 12, 2020, the Kenya Wildlife Service announced that efforts to curb poaching had helped its elephant population more than double over the past three decades. In 1989, Kenya had only 16,000 elephants; that number grew to over 34,000 by 2018. Najib Balala, Kenya’s Tourism Minister,...
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