Use whale shark to boost tourism, State told

Residents inspect a dead whale shark after it was washed up on a shore of Indian Ocean in Diani, near Mombasa on October 10, 2018.

An NGO has called for inclusion of the whale shark into Kenya’s list of key wildlife attractions.

Kenya is home to the Big Five. The animals — lion, leopard, rhino, elephant and buffalo — were named the big five because they were the most poached, most difficult to hunt on foot and the most dangerous.