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Illegal trophy trade fuels call for declaring poaching a disaster

Trade in ivory and rhino horns became so lucrative in 2014 that it threatened conservation gains made since establishment of the first national park in Kenya in 1946.

This was the year when poaching reached alarming levels, forcing conservationists to demand that President Uhuru Kenyatta declare it a national disaster.

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