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At Lewa Conservancy, elephants wear GPS-collared devices like this to help rangers keep track of them. If the collar sends an alert indicating the elephant has stopped moving, a team of rangers and tracking dogs will investigate. [PHOTO:JAMES WANZALA/STANDARD]
NAIROBI: According to the inventory of Kenya’s trophy stockpile, the country has 25,052 elephant ivories and 1,248 rhino horns.
Ivory-seeking poachers have killed 100,000 African elephants in just three years, according to a new study that provides the first reliable continent-wide estimates of illegal killings.
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