Audit shows Kenya’s ivory, rhino horn stocks safe

NAIROBI: Some conservationists’ persistent claims that public officials were colluding with traffickers to sell Government-held elephant ivory and rhino horn stockpiles have been discounted. Kenya’s first-ever comprehensive inventory of national stockpiles found that 137 tonnes of elephant ivory were intact by end of August.

Environment and Natural Resources Cabinet Secretary Judi Wakhungu announced that the inventory teams counted 25,052 pieces of ivory weighing 137.679 tonnes and 1,248 pieces of rhino horns weighing 1.519 tonnes.