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Kenya to benefit from EU’s Sh3.6 billion to fight poaching

Cabinet Secretary for Environment and Natural Resources Prof Judi Wakhungu in Nakuru on June 6, 2017 [PHOTO:KIPSANG JOSEPH]

Kenya is among East African countries set to benefit from Sh3.6 billion (30 million euros) from the European Union for fighting poaching.

The funds are meant to strengthen anti-poaching in countries adjacent to the Indian Ocean in a new initiative to intercept smuggled wildlife products shipped overseas.

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