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In the words of Ian Craig, a KWS board member and manager of the Northern Rangelands Trust: “There is no doubt that Kenyan elephants are in crisis with figures indicating that at least six jumbos are killed monthly in Kenyan National Parks for their tusks. I received daily messages of poached elephant carcasses and injured elephants. The first three months of this year looked as if we were heading for our worst year on record.”
Now that is not a good speech. Not good news. And definitely a sizeable and worrisome step backwards. As we revisit the renewed assault on the world’s largest gentle giant on land, the elephant, we must from the outset make it clear that the punishment meted out on poachers does not in any measure act as a deterrent against the bloody trade in game trophies.
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